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by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)

Liete, e pensose, accompagnate, e sole
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
- Liete, e pensose, accompagnate, e sole,
donne, che ragionando ite per via,
ove è la vita, ove la morte mia?
perché non è con voi, com'ella sòle?

- Liete siam per memoria di quel sole;
dogliose per sua dolce compagnia,
la qual ne toglie invidia e gelosia,
che d'altrui ben, quasi suo mal, si dole.

- Chi pon freno a li amanti, o dà lor legge?
- Nessun a l'alma; al corpo ira et asprezza:
questo or in lei, tal or si prova in noi.

- Ma spesso ne la fronte il cor si legge:
sí vedemmo oscurar l'alta bellezza,
e tutti rugiadosi li occhi suoi.

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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. 222 [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):

  • by Adriaan Willaert (c1490 - 1562), "Liete e pensose" [sung text not yet checked]

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


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2004-06-28
Line count: 14
Word count: 102

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