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by Niccolò Minato (1630 - 1698)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

O cessate di piagarmi

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER POR

Sesto:
 O cessate di piagarmi,
 o lasciatemi morir!
 Luci ingrate, dispietate,
 Più del gelo e più de' marmi
 fredde e sorde a' miei martir.

 Più d'un angue, più d'un aspe
 crudi e sordi a' miei sospir,
 [occhi alteri,
 ciechi e fieri,]¹
 voi potete risanarmi,
 e godete al mio languir.

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Note: A copyrighted translation is available in 26 Italian Songs and Arias, Alfred Publishing Co.
¹ a manuscript of arias in Copenhagen gives "occhi attroci [sic, atroci] orgogliosi" according to Knud Jeppesen in La Flora, vol. 1.

Text Authorship:

by Niccolò Minato (1630 - 1698) [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 Alessandro Scarlatti (1659 - 1725), "O cessate di piagarmi", 1683, from the opera [selections] Il Pompeo [
text verified 1 time
]

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

POR Portuguese (Português) (Débora Letícia Batista) , title 1: "Pára de me ferir", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Ach hört auf, mich zu verwunden", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English [singable] (Shula Keller) , title 1: "No more torture, no tormenting", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Aline Perrin) , title 1: "Ou vous cessez de me blesser", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 50

Ach hört auf, mich zu verwunden

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Italian (Italiano)

Sesto:
 Ach hört auf, mich zu verwunden,
 oder lasst mich sterben,
 ihr undankbaren, erbarmungslosen Augen,
 kälter als Eis, härter als Marmor,
 kalt und taub wider meine Pein.

 Schlimmer als Schlange und Natter,
 hart und ohne Empfindung für mein Flehen,
 hochmütige, verschlossene,
 stolze Augen,
 ihr könnt mich von meinem Leiden erlösen
 und euch an meinem Schmachten erfreuen.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Italian (Italiano) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2001 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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This text was added to the website: 2004-05-26
Line count: 12
Word count: 56