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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Translation © by Ferdinando Albeggiani

Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits

Language: English

Our translations: ITA

Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won,
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till she have prevailed?
Ay me! but yet thou might'st my seat forbear,
And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth,
Who lead thee in their riot even there
Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth: --
  Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
  Thine, by thy beauty being false to me.

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Text Authorship:

by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 41 [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 David Leo Diamond (1915 - 2005), "Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits", 1964, published 1967 [ high voice and piano ], from We Two, no. 3, New York : Southern [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet XLI", 1865 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 41, first published 1857
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Ogni attraente peccato cui tua libertà ti porta", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller

This text was added to the website: 2005-08-31
Line count: 14
Word count: 110

Ogni attraente peccato cui tua libertà ti porta

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the English

Ogni attraente peccato cui tua libertà ti porta,
quando al tuo cuore io qualche volta manco,
alla bellezza tua e ai tuoi anni fa scorta,
ché sempre, ovunque tu sia, tentazione ti è accanto.
Tu sei gentile, e quindi da conquistare,
pure bello tu sei, e quindi da sedurre;
e, se donna seduce, chi, da donna nato,
potrà mai resistere, austero, senza esser conquistato?
Ahimè, potresti invece non lasciarmi in disparte,
la tua bellezza e la tua gioventù incostante frenare, 
che ti spingono al punto, nel loro impulso forte,
che sei costretto una duplice fede a tradire
Quella di lei che la tua bellezza tenta
e quella tua che a me sleale diventa.

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a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 41
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This text was added to the website: 2013-05-13
Line count: 14
Word count: 113