by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)
Far potess'io vendetta di colei
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: ENG
Far potess'io vendetta di colei che guardando et parlando mi distrugge, et per piú doglia poi s'asconde et fugge, celando gli occhi a me sí dolci et rei. Cosí li afflicti et stanchi spirti mei a poco a poco consumando sugge, e 'n sul cor quasi fiero leon rugge la notte allor quand'io posar devrei. L'alma, cui Morte del suo albergo caccia, da me si parte, et di tal nodo sciolta, vassene pur a lei che la minaccia. Meravigliomi ben s'alcuna volta, mentre le parla et piange et poi l'abbraccia, non rompe il sonno suo, s'ella l'ascolta.
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Text Authorship:
- by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 1. Rime In vita di Madonna Laura, no. 256 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl August Förster (1784 - 1841) ; composed by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (A. S. Kline) , no title, copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Francisque Reynard) , "Canzone CCLVI Far potess'io vendetta"
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
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