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by Luigi Illica (1857 - 1919)

Nemico della Patria
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Nemico della Patria?!
È vecchia fiaba che beatamente
ancor la beve il popolo.
Nato a Costantinopoli? Straniero!
Studiò a Saint Cyr? Soldato!
Traditore! Di Dumouriez un complice!
E poeta? Sovvertitor di cuori e di costumi!

Un dì m'era di gioia
passar fra gli odi e le vendette,
puro, innocente e forte.
Gigante mi credea ...
Son sempre un servo!
Ho mutato padrone.
Un servo obbediente di violenta passione!
Ah, peggio! Uccido e tremo,
e mentre uccido io piango!

Io della Redentrice figlio,
pel primo ho udito il grido suo
pel mondo ed ho al suo il mio grido
unito... Or smarrita ho la fede
nel sognato destino?
Com'era irradiato di gloria
il mio cammino!

La coscienza nei cuor
ridestar delle genti,
raccogliere le lagrime
dei vinti e sofferenti,
fare del mondo un Pantheon,
gli uomini in dei mutare
e in un sol bacio e abbraccio
tutte le genti amar!

Text Authorship:

  • by Luigi Illica (1857 - 1919) [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 Umberto Giordano (1867 - 1948), "Nemico della Patria", 1896 [tenor and orchestra or piano], from the opera [selections] Andrea Chénier [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-11-14
Line count: 31
Word count: 148

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