Live at Festival MiTo, September 11th 2011.

Mauro Valli – cello
Giovanni Valgimigli – violone
Stefano Rocco – theorbo and baroque guitar
Maria Christina Cleary – harp
Daniele Proni – harpsichord and organ.

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“Addio Roma, addio Patria, amici addio!”

Addio Roma, addio Patria, amici addio!
Innocente da voi partir convengo.
Vado a patir l’esilio in pianti amari,
navigo disperata i sordi mari.
L’aria, che d’ora in ora
riceverà i miei fiati,
li porterà, per nome del cor mio,
a veder, a baciar le patrie mura,
ed io, starà solinga,
alternando le mosse ai pianti, ai passi,
insegnando pietade ai tronchi, e ai sassi.
Remigate oggi mai perverse genti,
allontanatemi dagli amati lidi.
Ahi, sacrilego duolo,
tu m’interdici il pianto
mentre lascio la Patria,
né stillar una lacrima poss’io
mentre dico ai parenti e a Roma: addio!
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Farewell Rome, farewell my country, friends, farewell!
Innocent, I must depart from you.
I go to suffer exile in bitter tears;
I cross the deaf seas in despair.
The air, which hour by hour
Shall receive my sighs,
Will carry them, in my heart’s name,
To see, to kiss the walls of my country;
And I, I shall remain alone,
Alternately weeping and pacing,
Teaching pity to the cold stones.
Row, now and forever, wicked people,
Distance me from these beloved shores.
Ah, sacrilegious sorrow,
You prevent me from weeping
When I leave my country,
Nor can I shed a single tear
While I say to my family and to Rome: farewell!