Tramontata è la luna
E le Plejadi a mezzo della notte;
Anche giovinezza già dilegua,
E ormai nel mio letto resto sola.

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Text Authorship:

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

Based on:

• a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 168B
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• by Goffredo Petrassi (1904 - 2003), "Tramontata è la luna", 1942, from Due liriche di Saffo, no. 1
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• Also set in English, a translation by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895) , no title ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Ned Rorem.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Charles Chaynes.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Walter Jens (b. 1923) , copyright © [an adaptation] ; composed by Aribert Reimann.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) , no title, appears in Stimmen der Völker in Liedern, in 2. Das zweite Buch. Lieder aus dem Süd, in 5. Fragmente griechischer Lieder. Sappho, no. 2 ; composed by Mathilde von Kralik.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rudolf Bach (1901 - 1957) ; composed by Hermann Reutter.
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• Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Giàcomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837) [an adaptation] ; composed by Ildebrando Pizzetti.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949) , "Ожидание", appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.
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• Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Gustaf Emil Zilliacus (1878 - 1961) , copyright © ; composed by Staffan Björklund.
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