Muore il tenero Adone | Muore il tenero Adone, o Citerea

by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)

Translation by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968)

Κατθνάισκει, Κυθέρη᾽, ἄβρος

Language: Aeolic Greek

Our translations: FRE

Κατθνάισκει, Κυθέρη᾽, ἄβρος Ἄδωνις∙ τί  κε  θεῖμεν;
καττύπτεσθε, κόραι, καὶ κατερείκεσθε   κίθωνας.

Text Authorship:

by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), "Κατθνάισκει, Κυθέρη᾽, ἄβρος" [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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Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968) ; composed by Luigi Dallapiccola.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949) , "Плач по Адонису", appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) [an adaptation] ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.

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

ENG English (Henry Thornton Wharton)
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2008-01-04
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Muore il tenero Adone

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the Aeolic Greek

Our translations: ENG

"Muore il tenero Adone, o Citerea;
E noi che faremo?"
"A lungo battetevi il petto, fanciulle,
E laceratevi le vesti".

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Text Authorship:

by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), "Κατθνάισκει, Κυθέρη᾽, ἄβρος"
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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 Luigi Dallapiccola (1904 - 1975), "Muore il tenero Adone", from Cinque Frammenti di Saffo, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-10-20
Line count: 4
Word count: 20