Carissimi – Vittoria, Vittoria!

Song Information

Title: Vittoria, Vittoria!
Alternative Title: Vittoria, mio core!

Music: Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)

Text: Domenico Benigni (d. 1653)

Sheet Music

Important note: This Baroque Italian aria is perhaps best known as it appears in Schirmer’s Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias. The pieces in that collection were generally set with very romanticized accompaniments. Though they aren’t very stylistically correct, they are perhaps the most familiar. The editions linked here may differ somewhat, but they are also likely to be overly romantic in style. For more somewhat more scholarly versions of most of these common Italian songs and arias, consider purchasing 26 Italian Songs and Arias, edited by John Glenn Paton, which is available in Medium High and Medium Low editions that each come with an accompaniment CD.

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Song Text

Vittoria, vittoria, mio core!
Non lagrimar più,
È sciolta d’Amore
La vil servitù.

Già l’empia a’ tuoi danni
Fra stuolo di sguardi,
Con vezzi bugiardi
Dispose gl’inganni;

Le frode, gli affanni
Non hanno più loco,
Del crudo suo foco
È spento l’ardore!

Da luci ridenti
Non esce più strale,
Che piaga mortale
Nel petto m’avventi:

Nel duol, ne’ tormenti
Io più non mi sfaccio
È rotto ogni laccio,
Sparito il timore!

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