Whoever owns my heart | Whoever owns my heart

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Chi possessore è del mio core

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Chi possessore è del mio core  
può senza orgoglio chiamarsi re.

Io ch'ho spezzato più d'un impero
ho a te piagato l'animo altero
e più d'un soglio val la mia fé.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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):

by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Chi possessore è del mio core", HWV 31 (1733), first performed 1733, from opera Orlando, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Whoever owns my heart", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-05-20
Line count: 5
Word count: 31

Whoever owns my heart

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Whoever owns my heart
can rightfully call himself king.

I who have turned aside many an empire
have wounded a very proud soul for you,
and my faith is worth more than any throne.

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-24
Line count: 5
Word count: 34