The echo | What are you doing, Echo, while I am calling you?

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by Angelo Ambrogini (1454 - 1494), as Angelo Poliziano

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

L'eco

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Che fai tu, Eco, mentre io ti chiamo?
Amo.
Ami tu due, o pur un solo?
Un solo.
Ed io te solo, e non altri amo
Altri amo.
Dunque non ami tu un solo?
Un solo.
[Questo è un dirmi:  I' non t'amo.
I' non t'amo]¹.
Quel che tu ami, amil' tu solo?
Solo.
Chi t'ha levato dal mio amore?
Amore.
Che fa quello a chi porti amore?
Ah, more.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Malipiero

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Confirmed with Biblioteca scelta die Opere italiane antiche e moderne, vol. 159, Milano: Giovanni Silvestri, 1825, page 62. Appears in Poesie italiane, in Rime.

¹ Malipiero: "Quest'è un dir io non t'amo./ Io non t'amo"

Text Authorship:

by Angelo Ambrogini (1454 - 1494), as Angelo Poliziano, "L'eco" [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 Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882 - 1973), "L'eco" [ voice and piano ], from Tre Poesie del Poliziano, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "The echo", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 72

The echo

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

What are you doing, Echo, while I am calling you?
I love.
Do you love two, or one alone?
One alone.
And you alone, and no others do I love.
I love others.
Then you don’t love one alone?
One alone.
This is to say I don’t love you.
I don’t love you.
He whom you love, do you love him alone?
Alone.
Who has taken you away from my love?
Love.
What does he to whom you bring love do?
Ah, he dies.

Text Authorship:

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Angelo Ambrogini (1454 - 1494), as Angelo Poliziano, "L'eco"
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This text was added to the website: 2019-09-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 84