Sesto:
 O cessate di piagarmi,
 o lasciatemi morir!
 Luci ingrate, dispietate,
 Più del gelo e più de' marmi
 fredde e sorde a' miei martir.

 Più d'un angue, più d'un aspe
 crudi e sordi a' miei sospir,
 [occhi alteri,
 ciechi e fieri,]1
 voi potete risanarmi,
 e godete al mio languir.

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Note: A copyrighted translation is available in 26 Italian Songs and Arias, Alfred Publishing Co.
¹ a manuscript of arias in Copenhagen gives "occhi attroci [sic, atroci] orgogliosi" according to Knud Jeppesen in La Flora, vol. 1.

Text Authorship:

• by Niccolò Minato (1630 - 1698) [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 Alessandro Scarlatti (1659 - 1725), "O cessate di piagarmi", 1683, from the opera [selections] Il Pompeo [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• POR Portuguese (Português) (Débora Letícia Batista) , title 1: "Pára de me ferir", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Ach hört auf, mich zu verwunden", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English [singable] (Shula Keller) , title 1: "No more torture, no tormenting", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Aline Perrin) , title 1: "Ou vous cessez de me blesser", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 48

Sesto:
 No more torture, no tormenting; -- 
 (2) Oh, just let me die in peace. 
 (2) You're (so) ungrateful, no compassion 
 Eyes too cold, too harsh, too wounding - 
 (2) More than ice or marble walls.