by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)
Ma, se con la pietà non è in te spenta
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Ma, se con la pietà non è in te spenta gentilezza e valor, che teco nacque, non mi negar, ti prego, anima cruda sí, ma però bella, non mi negar a l'ultimo sospiro un tuo solo sospir. Beata morte, se l'addolcissi tu con questa sola voce cortese e pia: «Va' in pace, anima mia!»
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Text Authorship:
- by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), no title, appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act IV, Scene 9, lines 1251-1259 [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), "Ma, se con la pietà non è in te spenta", published 1605 [ vocal quintet ], from Libro V de madrigali, no. 5, madrigal [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Mais si avec la pitié ne ont pas éteintes en toi", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Javier Pablo Sotelo) , "Mas, si con la piedad no se han extinguido", 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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Word count: 54