by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)
Dorinda, ah! dirò «mia» se mia non sei
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Dorinda, ah! dirò «mia» se mia non sei se non quando ti perdo e quando morte da me ricevi, e mia non fosti allora ch'i' ti potei dar vita? Pur "mia' dirò, ché mia sarai mal grado di mia dura sorte; e, se mia non sarai con la tua vita, sarai con la mia morte.
Text Authorship:
- by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act IV, Scene 9, lines 1260-1267 [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), "Dorinda, ah! dirò «mia» se mia non sei", published 1605 [ vocal quintet ], from Libro V de madrigali, no. 6, madrigal [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Dorinda, ah, dirai-je « mienne » si tu ne l'es pas", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Javier Pablo Sotelo) , "Dorinda, ¡Ah! ¿Diré "mía" si mía no eres", 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.
Line count: 8
Word count: 55