Everyone repeats and always hesitates | Everyone repeats and always hesitates

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by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941)

Translation © by Gretchen Armacost

Ognun ripicchia e nicchia

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Ognun ripicchia e nicchia ognor
su un caso strano a dir.
Ma perchè, ma cos'è,
che tanto amor dovea così finir?
Or io voglio la mia storia raccontar
tanto buffa ell'è:
Me ne givo un dì con Monna Lapa insiem,
che sì cara m'era al cor,
per i campi a raccoglier fior...
Ma la storia comincia quì.

U'! cos'è quel ch'io veggo là?
Un grillo o un rusignuol?
Più bel ve'!
La mia beltà sedette su un poggiuol.
Lei sperava di poter così
goder il divin cantor,
ma al trillar del grillo
e al pronto suo balzar
diede un grido, e nel fuggir,
sù ove prima seggea cascò...
E la storia finisce lì.

Text Authorship:

by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941) [author's text not yet checked 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 Stefano Donaudy (1879 - 1925), "Ognun ripicchia e nicchia", published <<1918, from 36 Arie di Stile Antico, no. 15. [
text verified 1 time
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Gretchen Armacost) , title 1: "Everyone repeats and always hesitates", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Stuart Price

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 113

Everyone repeats and always hesitates

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

 Everyone repeats and always hesitates
 Over an event strange to tell. 
 But why, but how is it that so much love
 Should end this way? 
 Now I want to tell my story,
 So comical it is:
 I was walking one day along with Milady Lapa,
 Who was so dear to my heart,
 Through the fields to gather flowers ... 
 But the story begins here. 
 
 Ooh! What is that which I see there? 
 A cricket or a nightingale? 
 Look--more beautiful! Look--more beautiful! 
 My beauty sat on a little hill. 
 She hoped so to be able to enjoy
 The divine singer,
 But at the trill of the cricket 
 and at his quick jump
 She gave a scream, and with her flight
 I fell on the place where she had formerly sat... 
 And the story ends here.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 134