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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Translation Singable translation by Nathan Haskell Dole (1852 - 1935)

È prezzo leggiero
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Available translation(s): ENG
È prezzo leggiero
d’un suddito il sangue,
se all’indico impero
conserva il suo re.
 
O inganni felici,
se al par de’ nemici
restasse ingannato
il fato da me!

Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Alessandro nell'Indie [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), "È prezzo leggiero", HWV 28 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "È prezzo leggiero", HWV 28, from opera Poro, re dell'Indie, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "È prezzo leggiero", 1729, first performed 1729 [ strings and tenor voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "The blood of a subject", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English [singable] (Nathan Haskell Dole)


Researcher for this text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-04-26
Line count: 8
Word count: 28

The life of a vassl
Language: English  after the Italian (Italiano) 
The life of a vassl
Were price all too trifling,
If safe in his castle
The great (Indian) King remained.

More hapless were no man,
If as by a foeman
Thro' me all his glory
In story were stain'd.

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Authorship:

  • Singable translation by Nathan Haskell Dole (1852 - 1935) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Alessandro nell'Indie
      • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]


Researcher for this text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-11-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 39

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