Da quel sembiante appresi
A [sospirare amante]1;
Sempre per quel sembiante
Sospirero [d'amor]2.

La face, a cui m'accesi
[Sola]3 m'alletta e piace;
È fredda [ogni]4 altra face
Per riscaldarmi il [cor]5.

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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 395.

The text appears in L'Eroe cinese, atto I, scena III (Lisinga's aria).

¹ Schubert: "sospirar d'amore"
² Schubert: "d'amore"
³ Schubert: "Solo"
⁴ Schubert: "ogn'"
⁵ Schubert: "cuore"

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1752, appears in L'Eroe cinese [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 Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826), "Da quel sembiante appresi", op. 16, Heft 1 no. 6, P 191 no. 6, published 1803 [ chorus and piano ], Leipzig [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Da quel sembiante appresi", D 688 no. 3 (1820), published 1871 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "D’aquell rostre he après", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "From that countenance I learned", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "De quelle forme j'ai appris", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Richard Morris , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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