Trova un sol, mia bella Clori,
Che ti parli e non sospiri,
Che ti vegga e non t'adori:
E poi sdegnati con me.

Ma perchè fra tanti rei
Sol con me perchè t'adiri?
Ah, se amabile tu sei,
Colpa mia, crudel, non è.

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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 718.

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 5. La scusa [author's text checked 1 time 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 (Karl) Friedrich Curschmann (1805 - 1841), "Trova un sol mia bella Clori", op. 8 (Vier Canzonetten) no. 1, published 1834, Berlin, Westphal [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "Trova un sol, mia bella Clori", two different settings [sung text checked 1 time]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau (1786 - 1832), no title, op. 9 no. 2 (c1813), published [1814] [ voice and piano ], from Sei Canzoni, no. 2, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Johann Christoph Grünbaum)

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