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Che mi giova impero e soglio, s’io non voglio uscir di affanni, s’io nutrisco i miei tiranni negli affetti del mio cor. Che infelice al mondo io sia, lo conosco, è colpa mia. Non è colpa dello sdegno, non è colpa dell’amor.
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- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Ezio [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2018-07-23
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Word count: 42
What good to me are empire and throne if I wish not to escape my suffering thereby, if I persist rather in nourishing my tyrants who reside within the recesses of my heart? To the world I must seem so unhappy, and by my fault I know this is so. It is not the fault of enmity, nor is it the fault of love.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Ezio
This text was added to the website: 2020-03-30
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Word count: 64