Nude archer who is so haughty

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Nudo arciero che sì altero

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Nudo arciero che sì altero
Vai giocando e scherzando
Tu che i cori uccidi e struggi
Via lontano omai ten fuggi.

Non tardare di spiegare
Ver le stelle l’ali belle
E tra i dei vivi immortali
Opra l’arco opra gli strali.

Nova arciera oggi impera
Che il tuo foco prende in gioco
E de’ tuoi son più possenti
I suoi strali aspri e pungenti.

Suo valore è maggiore
Nè per prova si ritrova
Chi’il suo foco oggi non senta
Ond’ogn’alma arde e spaventa.

Tra le rose tiene ascose
Spine amare che penare
Fanno ognor l’anime e i cori
Tra le angosce e tra i dolori.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, first published 1616 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Andrea Falconieri (1585 - 1656), "Nudo arciero che sì altero", published 1616 [voice and piano], Roma, appresso Giovanni Battista Robletti [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-11-27
Line count: 20
Word count: 105

Nude archer who is so haughty

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Nude archer who is so haughty,
Go playing and joking,
You who slays and melts hearts
Go far away, already you flee.

Do not delay to deploy
Toward the stars [your] beautiful wings
And among the living, immortal gods
Work the bow, work the arrows.

A new archer today reigns
Who your fire takes in sport,
And more powerful than yours are
Her arrows harsh and stinging.

Her valor is greater
Neither by trial does she find
That her fire today is not felt,
Hence every soul burns and fears.

Among the roses she keeps hidden
Bitter thorns which agonize,
Putting always souls and hearts
Into distress and suffering.

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , first published 1616
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This text was added to the website: 2018-11-27
Line count: 20
Word count: 109