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by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)
Translation by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897)

Li angeli electi et l’anime beate
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Li angeli electi et l’anime beate
cittadine del cielo, il primo giorno
che madonna passò, le fur intorno
piene di meraviglia et di pietate.

"Che luce è questa, et qual nova beltate?
- dicean tra lor - perch’abito sí adorno
dal mondo errante a quest’alto soggiorno
non salí mai in tutta questa etate".

Ella, contenta aver cangiato albergo,
si paragona pur coi piú perfecti,
et parte ad or ad or si volge a tergo,

mirando s’io la seguo, et par ch’aspecti:
ond’io voglie et pensier’ tutti al ciel ergo
perch’i’ l’odo pregar pur ch’i’ m’affretti.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 2. Rime In morte di Madonna Laura, no. 346 [author's text checked 1 time 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):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897) , no title, written 1860 ; composed by Mikhail Nikolayevich Ofrosimov.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-22
Line count: 14
Word count: 93

Когда она вошла в небесные селенья
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the Italian (Italiano) 
Когда она вошла в небесные селенья,
Её со всех сторон собор небесных сил,
В благоговении и тихом изумленьи,
Из глубины небес слетевшись, окружил.

«Кто это? — шёпотом друг друга вопрошали: —
Давно уж из страны порока и печали
Не восходило к нам в сияньи чистоты
Столь строго-девственной и светлой красоты».

И, тихо радуясь, она в их сонм вступает,
Но, замедляя шаг, свой взор по временам
С заботой нежною на землю обращает

И ждёт — иду ли я за нею по следам…
Я знаю, милая! Я день и ночь на страже!
Я господа молю! молю и жду — когда же?..

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Text Authorship:

  • by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897), no title, written 1860 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Italian (Italiano) by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 2. Rime In morte di Madonna Laura, no. 346
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Mikhail Nikolayevich Ofrosimov (b. 1840), "Когда она вошла в небесные селенья" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-22
Line count: 14
Word count: 99

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