Losing your beloved | Losing your beloved

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by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Perdere il bene amato

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Perdere il bene amato  
che il fato e amor ti diè,
l'estremo è del dolor.
Ma del vederla ancor
ad un rivale in braccio
morte peggior non è.

Furore disperato
t'agita l'alma allor:
ognun dovrebbe armato
teco punir l'error,
perché l'istesso affanno
deve temer per sé.

Text Authorship:

by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765) [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), "Perdere il bene amato", HWV 42 no. 11 (1740), first performed 1741 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Deidamia, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Losing your beloved", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 46

Losing your beloved

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Losing your beloved,
which Fate and Love have bestowed,
is the harshest possible pain.
But seeing her, on top of that,
in the arms of your rival,
ah! there is no worse death.

A desperate fury
agitates your soul,
prompting your comrades to arms
so as to stamp out your error
because your own anguish
must itself be feared.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765)
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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-21
Line count: 12
Word count: 59