by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)
Ch'i' t'ami, e t'ami piú de la mia vita
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Ch'i' t'ami, e t'ami piú de la mia vita, se tu nol sai, crudele, chiedilo a queste selve, che tel diranno, e tel diran con esse le fère loro e i duri sterpi e i sassi di questi alpestri monti, ch'i' ho sí spesse volte inteneriti al suon de' miei lamenti.
Authorship:
- by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 3, lines 296-303 [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 Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Ch'i' t'ami, e t'ami piú de la mia vita", published 1605 [ vocal quintet], from Libro V de madrigali, no. 9, madrigal [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Que je t'aime, et que je t'aime plus que ma vie", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Javier Pablo Sotelo) , title 1: "¿Que si te amo, si te amo más que a mi vida?", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Alberto Pedrotti
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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