Ciapa un baso, un altro ancora,
caro Momolo, de cuor;
qua destrachite che xe ora
de sugarte sto sudor.

Ah t'o visto co passando
su mi l'ocio ti a butà
e go dito respirando:
un bel premio el ciaparà,

sì, un bel premio in sta bandiera,
che xe rossa de color;
gha parlà Venezia intiera,
la t'a dito vincitor.

Ciapa un baso, benedeto,
a vogar nissun te pol,
[de casada, de tragheto]1
ti xe el megio barcarol.

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¹ the two kinds of gondoliers: "de casada", serving at a nobleman's household, "de tragheto", the equivalent of a modern taxi-driver

Text Authorship:

• by Francesco Maria Piave (1810 - 1876) [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 Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "Anzoleta dopo la regata" [mezzo-soprano and piano], from La regata veneziana: Tre canzoni in dialetto veneziano, no. 3, from the collection Péchés de vieillesse, Vol I: Album italiano, no. 10. [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Paolo Montanari) , title 1: "Anzoleta after the regatta", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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