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by Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)

Nirvana
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Ne la profonda e chiara sussistenza 
de l’alto lume parvermi tre giri 
di tre colori e d’una contenenza; 

e l’un da l’altro come iri da iri 
parea reflesso, e ‘l terzo parea foco 
che quinci e quindi igualmente si spiri. 

Text Authorship:

  • by Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), appears in La divina commedia, in Paradiso [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 Jacob ter Veldhuis (b. 1951), "Nirvana", 1993-2000, first performed 1993 [ voice and orchestra ], from oratorio Paradiso, no. 12 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-01-20
Line count: 6
Word count: 40

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