The Spanish Woman | Native to Spain, I am the most beautiful

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by Vincenzo di Chiara (1860 - 1916)

Translation © by Valerie Luxieo

La Spagnola

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG SPA

Di Spagna sono la bella, 
regina son dell'amor! 
Tutti mi dicono stella, 
stella di vivo splendor... 

Stretti, stretti nell'estasi d'amor! 
La spagnola sa amar così, 
bocca a bocca la notte e il dì. 

Amo con tutto l'ardore 
a chi è sincero con me... 
Degli anni miei il vigore 
gli fo ben presto veder! 

Stretti, stretti... 

Sguardi che mandan saette, 
movenze di voluttà! 
Le labbra son tumidette, 
fo il paradiso toccar! 

Stretti, stretti...

Text Authorship:

by Vincenzo di Chiara (1860 - 1916)

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

by Vincenzo di Chiara (1860 - 1916), "La Spagnola", subtitle: "Bolero" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , "La española", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Juan Henríquez Concepción , Laura Prichard [Guest Editor] , Valerie Luxieo

This text was added to the website: 2010-06-02
Line count: 17
Word count: 72

The Spanish Woman

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Native to Spain, I am [the most] beautiful,
I am [the] queen of love! 
Everyone calls me a star, 
A star of living splendor... 

Tightly, tightly, held in the ecstasy of love! 
The Spanish love like this, 
mouth to mouth, all night and day. 
 
I love everybody passionately
who is sincere with me... 
the vigor from my years [of experience],
I feel it quickly [and] intensely! 

Tightly, tightly, held in the ecstasy of love! ...

Looks that shoot through me like arrows, 
Movements that fill me with pleasure! 
Lips swollen and puckered, 
Touching paradise! 

Tightly, tightly, held in the ecstasy of love! ...

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Vincenzo di Chiara (1860 - 1916)
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This text was added to the website: 2025-06-17
Line count: 17
Word count: 101