by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Se la mia vita
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: ENG
Se la mia vita dono è d'Augusto, il freddo Scita, l'Etiope adusto al piè di Cesare piegar farò. Perché germoglino per te gli allori, mi vedrai spargere nuovi sudori, saprò combattere, morir saprò.
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- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Ezio, Rome, first published 1729 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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