Quanto si gode, lieta e ben contesta

Quanto si gode, lieta e ben contesta
di fior, sopra' crin d'or d'una, grillanda;
che l'altro inanzi l'uno all' altro manda,
come ch'il primo sia a baciar la testa!

Contenta è tutto il giorno quella vesta
che serra 'l petto, e poi par che si spanda;
e quel c'oro filato si domanda
le guanci, e 'l collo di toccar non resta.

Ma più lieto quel nastro par che goda,
dorato in punta, con sì fatte sempre,
che preme e tocca il petto ch'egli allaccia.

E la schietta cintura che s'annoda.
Mi par dir seco: qui vo' stringier sempre!
Or che farebbon dunche le mie braccia?

by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) , from Rime, no. 4

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975) , no title, op. 145 no. 2, from Suite, no. 2, also set in Russian

by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975) , no title, op. 145 no. 2 (1974), from Suite, no. 2, also set in Italian

ENG English (John Addington Symonds)
GER German (Hermann Friedrich Grimm)

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Net radostnej vesjologo zanjat'ja:
Po zlatu kos cvetam napereboj
Soprikasat'sja s miloj golovoj
I l'nut' lobzan'em vsjudu bez iz"jat'ja!

I skol'ko naslazhdenija dlja plat'ja
Szhimat' jej stan i nispadat' volnoj,
I kak otradno setke zolotoj
Jejo lanity zakljuchat' v ob"jat'ja!

Jeshchjo nezhnej narjadnoj lenty vjaz',
Blestja uzornoj vyshivkoj svojeju,
Smykajetsja vkrug persej molodykh.

A chistyj pojas, laskovo vijas',
Kak budto shepchet: «ne rasstanus' s neju...»
O, skol'ko dela zdes' dlja ruk moikh!

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Note on Transliteration

Singable translation by Abram Efros (1888-1954)

a text in Italian by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) , from Rime, no. 4 ENG GER

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975) , no title, op. 145 no. 2 (1974), from Suite, no. 2, also set in Italian

FRE French (Guy Laffaille)

Date added to the website: 2008-10-02.