Casta diva - Amilcare Ponchielli



     
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Casta Diva, che inargenti
queste sacre antiche piante,
a noi volgi il bel sembiante
senza nube e senza vel...
Tempra, o Diva,
tempra tu de cori ardenti
tempra ancora lo zelo audace,
spargi in terra quella pace
che regnar tu fai nel ciel...Fine al rito : e il sacro bosco
Sia disgombro dai profani.
Quando il Nume irato e fosco
Chiegga il sangue dei Romani,
Dal Druidico delubro
La mia voce tuoner .
Cadr ; punirlo io posso.
(Ma, punirlo, il cor non sa.
Ah! bello a me ritorna
Del fido amor primiero;

E contro il mondo intiero...
Difesa a te sar .
Ah! bello a me ritorna
Del raggio tuo sereno;
E vita nel tuo seno,
E patria e cielo avr .
Ah, riedi ancora qual eri allora,
Quando il cor ti diedi allora,
Ah, riedi a me.)

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Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886) was an Italian composer, mainly of opera. Born on 31st August 1834, in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old. Two years after leaving the conservatory he wrote his first opera -- it was based on Alessandro Manzoni's great novel I promessi sposi (The Betrothed) -- and it was as an opera composer that he eventually found fame.

Read more about Amilcare Ponchielli on Last.fm.


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