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by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)

Troppo ben può questo tiranno Amore
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  FRE SPA
Troppo ben può questo tiranno Amore,
poiché non val fuggire
a chi no'l può soffrire.
Quando i' penso talor com'arde, e punge,
i' dico: «Ah core stolto,
non l'aspettar; che fai?
Fuggilo sí, che non ti prenda mai.»
Ma non so com'il lusinghier mi giunge,
ch'io dico: «Ah core stolto,
perché fuggito l'hai?
Prendilo sí, che non ti fugga mai.»

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Text Authorship:

  • by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), no title, appears in Rime, no. 100 [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), "Troppo ben può questo tiranno Amore", published 1605 [ vocal quintet], from Libro V de madrigali, no. 15, madrigal [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Ce tyran, l'Amour, a trop de pouvoir", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Javier Pablo Sotelo) , title 1: "Tanto puede este tirano Amor", 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: 11
Word count: 60

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