Cedo alla sorte
gli allori estremi;
non son più forte
per contrastar.
 
Nemico è il vento,
l'onda è infedele;
non ho più remi,
non ho più vele
e a suo talento
mi porta il mar.

F. Mendelssohn sets stanza 1

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Confirmed with Achille in Sciro, by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi, Vienna, van Ghelen, 1736, lines 1136-1145.

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Achille in Sciro [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by (Jakob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847), "Ch'io t'abbandono in periglio sì grande", 1825 [ voice and piano ]
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