LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (21,005)
  • Text Authors (21,039)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,134)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

S’ i’ avessi creduto al primo sguardo
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Chosen for Diff
S’ i’ avessi creduto al primo sguardo 
     Di quest’ alma fenice al caldo sole 
     Rinnovarmi per foco, come suole 
     Nell’ ultima vecchiezza, ond’ io tutt’ ardo ; 
Qual più veloce cervio o lince o pardo 
     Segue ’l suo bene e fuggie quel che dole, 
     Agli atti, al riso, all’ oneste parole 
     Sarie cors’ anzi, ond’ or son presto e tardo, 
Ma perchè più dolermi, po’ ch’ i’ veggio 
     Negli occhi di quest’ angel lieto e solo 
     Mie pace, mie riposo e mie salute ? 
Forse che prima sarie stato il peggio 
     Vederlo udirlo, s’ or di pari a volo
     Seco m’ impenna a seguir suo virtute.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Michaelangelo Buanarotti, The Sonnets of Michelangelo, London, New York : Smith, Elder, & Co., C. Scribner's Sons,1904


Text Authorship:

  • by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, appears in Rime, no. 50 [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 German (Deutsch), a translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) , no title, appears in Michelangelo-Übertragungen ; composed by Willy Kehrer.
    • Go to the text.

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-12-20
Line count: 14
Word count: 104

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2026 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris