Text & Translation
La primavera
Italian source:
Giacomo Puccini
d’imperversante aquilonar procella
già cede il loco al natural tepore
che promette stagion più grata e bella;
e dei giardin l’industre agricoltore
piegato sovra a pianta tenerella,
Ah! ne benda il fiocco e poi racchiuderà
quel germe di più fruttifero arboscel.
The Spring
English translation ©
Oxford Song
of the raging north wind’s storm
already yields its place to natural warmth,
which promises a kinder, lovelier season;
and the garden’s diligent cultivator,
bent over a tender little plant,
Ah! wraps its bud in a veil, and then will enclose
that germ of a more fruitful little tree.
La primavera
Italian source:
Giacomo Puccini
The Spring
English source:
Oxford Song
È questa la stagione in cui il furore
Is this the season when the fury
d’imperversante aquilonar procella
of the raging north wind’s storm
già cede il loco al natural tepore
already yields its place to natural warmth,
che promette stagion più grata e bella;
which promises a kinder, lovelier season;
e dei giardin l’industre agricoltore
and the garden’s diligent cultivator,
piegato sovra a pianta tenerella,
bent over a tender little plant,
Ah! ne benda il fiocco e poi racchiuderà
Ah! wraps its bud in a veil, and then will enclose
quel germe di più fruttifero arboscel.
that germ of a more fruitful little tree.
Composer
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer. He is best known for his works La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot (1924). Information…
