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But has there ever been a better portrayal of the exhaustion of despair than "Lascia ch'io pianga"?
Spend some time and rock a rhyme / I said, It's not that easy Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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But has there ever been a better portrayal of the exhaustion of despair than "Lascia ch'io pianga"?
Archive 2009-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Anett Fritsch Almirena achieved unadorned intensity in "Lascia ch'io pianga" and Brenda Rae showed fire-breathing flair as the sorceress Armida.
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Voi che ˜ntendendo il terzo ciel movete, udite il ragionar ch™Ã¨ nel mio core, ch'io nol so dire altrui, sì mi par novo.
Dante Alighieri Wetherbee, Winthrop 2006
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Filarete wrote in 1464: Ancora a me solevano piacere questi moderni; ma poi, ch'io comenciai a gustare questi antichi, mi sono venuti in odio quelli moderni ....
Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968
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Even to-day, when many of us hear for the first time the airs 'Lascia ch'io pianga' and 'Cara sposa,' we seem to fall at once under the spell of their charm; and can we not imagine the effect which these beautiful songs produced upon the Londoners of nearly two centuries ago, as they were voiced by the great singer Nicolini?
Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham
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Opus 13 is a "Sonnet," based, after the plan of Liszt, upon a lyric of Petrarch's, a beautiful translation from his "Gli occhi di ch'io parlai si caldamente."
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Lascia ch'io pianga, Handel; Raff's Cavatina for contralto; Millard's
Sixty Years of California Song Margaret Blake Alverson 1879
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'Se fra i mali de l'animo, uno de'più gravi è l'ambizione, egli ammalò di questo male già molti anni sono, nè mai è risanato in modo ch'io abbia potuto sprezzare affatto i favori e gli onori del mondo, e chi può dargli' (_Lettere_, vol.iii. p. 56).
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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Sino un reumatismo, che m 'aveva afferrato per un braccio, s' e dileguato, così ch'io farei ora alla lotta col più valente marinaro calabrese che sia.
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