Sandro Penna

Sandro Penna – Mi nasconda la notte e il dolce vento / Let the night and the sweet wind

Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Nocturne on the Bosphorus, 1897 Let the night and the sweet wind hide me. I was sent away from home, then I reached you,  my romantic ancient slow river. I gaze upon the sky, the clouds and the lights of men down there, always so faraway from me. Now I don’t know who …

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Sandro Penna – Se la vita sapesse il mio amore / If life knew my love

Titian (Tiziano), The Three Ages of Man, 1512 If life knew my love!I’d go tonight faraway. I’d go where the wind can kiss me,where the river can murmur to me.But who knows? Life could be likea child running away… (Transl. by D. Foglia) Se la vita sapesse il mio amore!Me ne andrei questa sera lontano.Me ne …

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