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D'improvviso
Staff Notation • Secular, Arias
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D'improvviso by Antonio Caldara — Lyrics
D'improvviso amor ferisce
al girar d'un vago ciglio
e la piaga sente il cor.
Par diletto e pur vanisce
il piacer quando il periglio
si discuopre nel dolor.
Così Filli crudel
questo mio seno scopo formasti
a strali tuoi di foco,
ma poi come baleno
spari la tua pietade
e di me gioco prendesti
ond'io che mi destruggio
in pianto son di tua crudeltà,
più che di tua beltà misero vanto.
Se quanto, bella sei tu fosti
à dolor miei Filli pietosa
saresti un vago fiore,
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About D'improvviso
This is a single-voice aria in Italian by Antonio Caldara. The text speaks of love's sudden attack, likening the beloved's glance to an arrow and the heart's reaction to a wound. The singer laments the fleeting nature of pleasure when danger and pain are revealed, describing how their beloved cruelly wounded them with fiery arrows of love. The singer wishes their beloved would show pity, becoming a beautiful, thornless flower, more fragrant than a rose. Despite the beloved's cruelty, the singer vows they will remain their adored deity, finding solace in their tears of pain rather than their beauty.
