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La Biondina in gondoleta L'altra sera [gò]1 menà: Dal piacer la povereta, La [s'à]2 in bota indormenzà. La dormiva su sto brazzo, Mi ogni tanto la svegiava, Ma la barca che ninava La tornava a indormenzar. [Fra le nuvole la luna Gera in cielo mezza sconta,]3 Gera in calma la laguna, Gera [el]4 vento bonazzà. Una solo bavesèla Sventolava i so caveli, E faceva che dai veli Sconto el sen no fusse più. Contemplando fisso fisso Le fatezze del mio ben, Quel viseto cussì slisso; Quela boca e quel bel sen, Me sentiva drento in peto Una smania, un missiamento; Una spezie de contento Che no so come spiegar. So' stà un pezzo rispetando Quel bel sono, e ò soportà, Benche Amor de quando in quando El m’avesse assae tentà; E ò provà a butarme zozo Là con ela a pian pianin; Ma col fogo da vicin Chi averia da ripossar? [M'ò]5 stufà po' finalmente De sto tanto so dormir, E [gh'ò]6 fato da insolente, [Nè m'ò avudo]7 da pentir; Perchè, oh Dio, che bele cosse Che [gh'ò] dito, e che [gh'ò]8 fato! No, mai più tanto beato Ai [me']9 zorni no son sta.
R. Hahn sets stanzas 1-6, 9-10
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Antonio Lamberti, Collezione delle migliori opere scritte in dialetto veneziano, volume primo: Poesie di Antonio Lamberti, Venezia: al negozio di libri all'Apollo, dalla Tipografia di Alvisopoli, 1817, pages 20-21
Confirmed with Antonio Lamberti, Raccolta di poesie in dialetto veneziano d'ogni secolo, Venezia: co' tipi di Giovanni Cecchini e comp., 1845, page 276
1 Also, "g'ho" or "gh'ò"2 Or, "s'ha"
3 Text sources besides the original have the order of these two lines reversed; Beethoven uses this order, but Hahn reverses them.
4 Or, "il"
5 Or, "m'ho"
6 Or, "g'ho"
7 Or, "No m'ho avuto"
8 Or, "gh'ò"
9 Or, "mii"
Text Authorship:
- by Antonio Lamberti (1757 - 1832), "La gondoletta", Venezia, negozio di libri all'Apollo, first published 1817 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "La gondoletta", WoO 157 no. 12 (1816), from 12 songs of various nationalities, no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "La biondina in gondoleta", 1901, published 1919, stanzas 1-6,9-10 [ high voice and piano ], from Venezia, chansons en dialecte vénitien, no. 4, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Giovanni Simone Mayr (1763? - 1845), "La biondina in gondoleta" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Sylvain Labartette) , "La blondinette en gondole", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) (Effimia Gianniou) , "Η ξανθούλα στην γόνδολα", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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La rubita en gondolita La otra tarde la llevé: Del placer la pobrecita, Ahí en el bote se adormeció. Dormía en mis brazos Yo cada tanto la desvelaba, Pero la barca que acunaba La volvía a adormecer. Estaba en el cielo medio escondida Entre las nubes la luna; Estaba en calma la laguna, Estaba el viento adormecido. Una sola brisilla Soplaba sus cabellos, Y hacía que de sus velos Escondido el seno no estuviese más. Contemplando quieto quieto Las formas de mi bien, Este carita así tan suave, Esta boca y este hermoso seno; Pero sentía dentro del pecho Un frenesí, un deseo, Una especie de contento Que no se como explicar! Me he aburrido un poco, finalmente, De tanto dormir, Y he hecho el insolente, No me he tenido que arrepentir; Por qué, oh Dios, qué bellas cosas He dicho, y qué he hecho! No, nunca más tan dichoso En toda mi vida no he estado!
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- Translation from Italian - Venetian (dialect) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2008 by Juan Henríquez Concepción, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian - Venetian (dialect) by Antonio Lamberti (1757 - 1832), "La gondoletta", Venezia, negozio di libri all'Apollo, first published 1817
This text was added to the website: 2008-11-26
Line count: 32
Word count: 157