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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Translation © by Camilla Bugge

Per pietà, bell'idol mio
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE GER
Per pietà, bell'idol mio,
non mi dir ch'io sono ingrato;
infelice e sventurato
abbastanza il Ciel mi fa.

Se fedele a te son io,
se mi struggo ai tuoi bei lumi,
sallo amor, lo sanno i Numi
il mio core, il tuo lo sa.

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•   W. Mozart 

W. Mozart sets stanza 1

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Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Artaserse, from Artaserse, Act I, Scene V [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 Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", from Sei Ariette, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by ? Brouncker, Miss , "Per pietà bel idol mio", published 1840? [ voice and piano ], London : Willis & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Karl) Friedrich Curschmann (1805 - 1841), "Per pietà bell' idol ", op. 8 (Vier Canzonetten) no. 3, published 1834, Berlin, Westphal [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", op. 40 (12 Canzonette Italiane) no. 8, P 184 no. 8, published 1813 [ voice and piano ], Munich: Falter et Figlio [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", 1730, first performed 1730 [ strings, tenor voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", 1760, first performed 1760 [ strings, alto voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", 1749, first performed 1749 [ strings and soprano voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", 1749, first performed 1749 [ soprano voice, strings, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Leopold Antonín Koželuh (1747 - 1818), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", op. 31 no. 12 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", K. 78, K. 73b (c1766), stanza 1 [ soprano, orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "Per pietà, bell' idol mio", HelN 78 no. 4 (1730), first performed 1730 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Camilla Bugge) , "For Pity's Sake", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Hab Erbarmen, mein schöner Abgott", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 44

For Pity's Sake
Language: English  after the Italian (Italiano) 
For pity's sake, my beautiful idol
do not tell me that I am ungrateful;
unhappy and unfortunate enough
has heaven made me.

That I am faithful to you,
that I languish under your bright gaze,
Love knows, the gods know,
my heart [knows], and yours knows.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2004 by Camilla Bugge, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

  • a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Artaserse, from Artaserse, Act I, Scene V
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This text was added to the website: 2004-10-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 46

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