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by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

Qual meraviglia è, se prossim’al foco
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
  Qual meraviglia è, se prossim’al foco
mi strussi e arsi, se or ch’egli è spento
di fuor, m’affligge e mi consuma drento,
e ’n cener mi riduce a poco a poco?
  Vedea ardendo sì lucente il loco
onde pendea il mio greve tormento,
che sol la vista mi facea contento,
e morte e strazi m’eran festa e gioco.
  Ma po’ che del gran foco lo splendore
che m’ardeva e nutriva, il ciel m’invola,
un carbon resto acceso e ricoperto.
  E s’altre legne non mi porge amore
che lievin fiamma, una favilla sola
non fie di me, sì ’n cener mi converto.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   O. Neuwirth 

O. Neuwirth sets lines 1-4

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Text Authorship:

  • by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 266 [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):

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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
  • by Olga Neuwirth (b. 1968), "Qual meraviglia è, se prossim’al foco", 2005 [ counter-tenor and piano ], from Tintarella di luna: cold songs for countertenor and piano, no. 2
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This text was added to the website: 2022-06-11
Line count: 14
Word count: 102

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