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by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Che se tu se' 'l cor mio

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: FRE

Che se tu se' 'l cor mio,
come se' pur mal grado
del cielo e della terra,
qualor piagni e sospiri,
quelle lagrime tue sono il mio sangue,
que' sospiri il mio spirto e quelle pene
e quel dolor, che senti,
son miei, non tuoi, tormenti.

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Text Authorship:

by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 4, lines 548-555 [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 Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Madrigale", 1950 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Vier Canzonen, no. 3, Bärenreiter [sung text not yet checked]
by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Che se tu se' 'l cor mio", from Libro IV de madrigali, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Car tu es mon cœur", 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: 46

Car tu es mon cœur

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

Car tu es mon cœur
et tu le seras pour toujours malgré
le ciel et la terre,
quand pleurant et soupirant
tes larmes sont mon sang,
que ces soupirs sont mon esprit et ces peines
et cette douleur que tu ressens,
sont miennes, et tes tourments à toi.

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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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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 4, lines 548-555
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This text was added to the website: 2013-02-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 48