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Povero cor, tu palpiti, ne a torto in questo di; tu palpiti così, povero core. Si tratta o Dio, di perdere per sempre il caro ben, che di sua mano in sen m'inpresse amore.
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Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1756, appears in La Nitteti, first published 1756 [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 Isabella Colbran (1785 - 1845), "Povero cor tu palpiti" [ piano, voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau (1786 - 1832), "Povero cor, tu palpiti", op. 9 no. 6 (c1813), published [1814] [ voice and piano ], from Sei Canzoni, no. 6, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2019
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 34
Poor heart, you flutter, and not in error, on this day; you flutter so much, poor heart. The reason is, oh God! you have lost forever your dear one, whose image was engraved upon you by the hand of Cupid himself.
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2019 by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1756, appears in La Nitteti, first published 1756
This text was added to the website: 2019-05-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 41