Charming and dear | Charming and dear

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possibly by Andrea Falconieri (1585 - 1656)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Vezzosette e care

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG GER

Vezzosette e care
Pupillette ardenti,
Chi v'ha fatto avare
De'bei rai lucenti?
S'io rimiro i vostri
Sguardi scorgo sol fulmini e dardi:
Nè veder so piu quel riso
Che rendeva si vago il viso.

Chi v’ha fatto oscure,
Pupilette belle,
Che serne e pure
Rassembrami stelle?
Chi m’ha tolto i dolci rai?
Dillo, Amor, se tu lo sai!
Dillo, e sia quel che si fia
O disprezzo o gelosia.

Non più, sdegnosette,
Rimirar vi voglio,
Né più, superbette,
Soffrir tanto orgoglio.
Che veder, s’io non v’offesi,
Vostri rai di sdegno accesi,
Pupillette, è ingiusto duolo.
O ridete, o prendo il volo.

Text Authorship:

possibly by Andrea Falconieri (1585 - 1656) [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 Andrea Falconieri (1585 - 1656), "Vezzosette e care", subtitle: "Villanella". [voice and piano] [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Charming and dear", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Betörende und liebe", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 101

Charming and dear

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Charming and dear
fervent eyes,
who has made you stingy
with your beautiful, lustrous gleams?
If I look at your
glances I can only see flashes and darts:
Nor can I see any longer that smile
that made your countenance so elusive.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2009 by Bertram Kottmann, (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 (Italiano) possibly by Andrea Falconieri (1585 - 1656)
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 42