Placido zeffiretto,
  Se trovi il caro oggetto
  Digli che sei sospiro;
  Ma non gli dir di chi.
Limpido ruscelletto,
  Se [mai t' incontri in lei,
  Dille]1 che pianto sei
  Ma non [le]2 dir qual ciglio
  Crescer ti fè cosi.

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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Volume Unico, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e Compagni, 1832, page 723.

¹ Righini: "trovi il caro oggetto / Digli"
² Righini: "gli"

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 16. Amor timido [author's text checked 1 time 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 Vincenzo Righini (1756 - 1812), "Placido zefiretto", op. 7 no. 1, published [c1807] [ voice and piano ], from Sammlung deutscher und italienischer Gesänge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, Heft VI, no. 4, from Dodici Ariette, no. 1, Leipzig: Bei Ambrosius Kühnel (Bureau de Musique.); German incipit: "Liebliche Lüftchen" [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Placid little breeze", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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