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by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Cor mio, mentre vi miro

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: FRE

Chosen for Diff

Cor mio, mentre vi miro,
visibilmente mi trasformo in voi,
e trasformato poi,
in un solo sospir l'anima spiro.
O bellezza mortale,
O bellezza vitale,
poiché sí tosto un core
per te rinasce, e per te nato more.

Text Authorship:

by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Rime, without number [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), "Cor mio, mentre vi miro", published 1603 [ vocal quintet ], from Libro IV de madrigali, no. 2, madrigal
Score: IMSLP [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Mon cœur, quand je vous vois", copyright © 2013, (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: 38

Mon cœur, quand je vous vois

Language: French (Français) after the Italian (Italiano)

Chosen for Diff

Mon cœur, quand je vous vois,
visiblement je me transforme en vous,
et ensuite transformé,
en un seul soupir j'expire mon âme.
Ô beauté mortelle,
ô beauté vitale,
puisque aussitôt qu'un cœur
pour toi renaît, que né pour toi il meurt.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Italian (Italiano) to French (Français) copyright © 2013 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Rime, without number
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This text was added to the website: 2013-02-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 41