Barbarian! I hate you unto death! (Rolli, set by Georg Friedrich Händel) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Barbaro! t’odio a morte

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Barbaro! Barbaro!
t’odio a morte,
ma più mortale orror
ho di me stessa ancor,
che viva son per te.

Pefido agli occhi miei tu sei
un mostro e non un Re.
Barbaro!

Authorship

by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Barbaro! t’odio a morte", HWV 14, from opera Floridante [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Barbarian! I hate you unto death!", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Text added to the website: 2018-06-01 00:00:00
Last modified: 2018-08-15 18:18:56
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Word count: 32

Barbarian! I hate you unto death!

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Barbarian! 
I hate you unto death,
but I regard myself
with even greater horror,
for I owe my very life to you.

You traitor! To my eyes you are a monster.
You are no king.
Barbarian!

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765)

Text added to the website: 2019-10-06 00:00:00
Last modified: 2019-10-06 19:14:53
Line count: 8
Word count: 36