If you should return my love | If you should return my love

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Se l'amor tuo mi rendi

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Se l'amor tuo mi rendi,
se più fedel sarai,
son vendicato assai,
più non desio da te.
 
Sorte più bella attendi,
spera più pace al core
or che al sentier d'onore
volgi di nuovo il piè.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Siroe, re di Persia, first published 1727 [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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Se l'amor tuo mi rendi", HWV 24 (1728), first performed 1728 [ violins, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Siroe, re di Persia [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "If you should return my love", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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If you should return my love

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

If you should return my love,
if you will be more faithful,
I am sufficiently avenged,
and desire no greater reward from you.

Await a brighter future,
and hope for a peaceful heart,
now that you have newly turned your feet
onto the path of honor.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Siroe, re di Persia, first published 1727
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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-18
Line count: 8
Word count: 46