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by Alvise Cicogna (1791 - 1863)

La primavera
Language: Italian - Venetian (dialect) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE GRE SPA
Giacinti, e violete
Fa in tera baossete1:
Che gusto! che giubilo!
L'inverno è scampà.

La Neve è svania,
La brina è finia,
Xe tepida l'aria,
El sol chiapa fià.

Sgualdina Anzoleto, 
Col so cesteleto,
Salata e radichio 
I va a sgarugiar. 

Vardè la sisila, 
La canta, la trila; 
El nio la se fabrica,
Tornada dal mar.

Le piegore salta,
S'ingropa, e rebalta... 
Che stala? ... sì al pascolo 
Co tuti i bebè: 

Le guida Tognoto, 
Sonando el subioto;
No ocore più l'elera:
Erbeta ghe n'è. 

Amici, [fè]2 ciera
Xe qua primavera:
Me 'l dise quel nuvolo...
Sentì! sentì el ton!

Ohimè! che sta idea
El cuor me ricrea,
E tuto desmentego
Quel fredo baron.

Ancora un meseto,
E ['l]3 russignoleto
Col canto ne [sgiozzola]4
Su l'anima el miel.

Stagion deliziosa!
Ti vien co la rosa,
Ti parti col giglio,
Fior degno del ciel.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Hahn 

R. Hahn sets stanzas 1-2, 7-10

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Confirmed with Raccolta di poesie in dialetto veneziano d'ogni secolo. Nuovamente ordinata ed accresciuta., Volume unico, Venezia, Co'lipi di Pietro Naratovich, ed., 1845, pages 445-446.

1 Hahn: "Baosète"
2 Hahn: "fa"
3 Hahn: "el"
4 Hahn: "sgiozzolo"

Text Authorship:

  • by Alvise Cicogna (1791 - 1863), "La primavera", subtitle: "Anacreontica" [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 Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "La primavera", 1901, published 1919, stanzas 1-2,7-10 [ tenor, soprano, chorus and piano ], from Venezia, chansons en dialecte vénitien, no. 6, note: the score spells the poet's surname as "Cigogna"; Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text checked 2 times]

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

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "The spring", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Sylvain Labartette) , "Le printemps", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) (Effimia Gianniou) , "Η άνοιξη", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , "La primavera", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 40
Word count: 146

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