In the depths of my suffering

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Io non so nel mio martiro

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Io non so nel mio martiro
se ragiono o se deliro;
so che solo io mi consolo
con l’idea del caro ben.
 
Che fatale è ben lo strale
che avvelena i giorni miei;
ma ch’io l’amo e ch’io morrei
nello svellerlo dal sen.

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Il Ruggiero [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 43

In the depths of my suffering

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

In the depths of my suffering,
I know not whether I have lost my reason.
I only know that I console myself 
with the image of my beloved.

How fatal is this dart
that poisons my very existence!
Yet I love her, and to have her 
uprooted from my breast
would mean my demise.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Il Ruggiero

This text was added to the website: 2018-08-15
Line count: 9
Word count: 54