Qui son morto creduto; e per conforto
del mondo vissi, e con mille alme in seno
di veri amanti: adunche, a venir meno,
per tormen' una sola non son morto.

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Text Authorship:

• by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, appears in Rime, no. 190 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Qui vuol mie sorte c'anzi tempo i' dorma", op. 145 no. 11, from Suite on verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, no. 11
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Abram Markovich Efros (1888 - 1954) ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
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• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , subtitle: "Esu tarytum miręs", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• RUS Russian (Русский) (Abram Markovich Efros)

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