by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Perché tuo gran bellezze al mondo sièno
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Perché tuo gran bellezze al mondo sièno in donna più cortese e manco dura, prego se ne ripigli la natura tutte quelle c'ognor ti vengon meno, e serbi a riformar del tuo sereno e divin volto una gentil figura del ciel, e sia d'amor perpetua cura rifarne un cor di grazia e pietà pieno. E serbi poi i mie sospiri ancora, e le lacrime sparte insieme accoglia e doni a chi quella ami un'altra volta. Forse a pietà chi nascerà in quell'ora la moverà co' la mie propia doglia, né fie persa la grazia c'or m'è tolta.
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- by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, appears in Rime, no. 230 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Erich J. Wolff.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) , appears in Michelangelo-Übertragungen ; composed by Anton Schoendlinger.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (John Addington Symonds) , "A Prayer to Nature: Amor Redivivus", appears in The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella now for the first time translated into rhymed English, first published 1878
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