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Bajazet Libretto

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ANDRONICO<br />

Sul trono.<br />

BAJAZET<br />

Su quale trono?<br />

ANDRONICO<br />

Su quello del tuo nemico.<br />

BAJAZET<br />

Del Tamerlan?<br />

ANDRONICO<br />

Così non fosse.<br />

BAJAZET<br />

Ah! indegna.<br />

E quando? E come? Ahi, me tradito! Parla.<br />

ANDRONICO<br />

Testè la vidi io stesso entrar le tende<br />

del Tartaro. La guidi<br />

vendetta o ambizion, sale sul trono.<br />

BAJAZET<br />

E tu, codardo amante,<br />

che nemico potesti<br />

farla scender dal mio, dal proprio soglio,<br />

ad un altro non suo<br />

non li sapesti attraversar la strada?<br />

ANDRONICO<br />

Dissi, gridai, ma chi non bada al padre,<br />

più non ascolta un vilipeso amante.<br />

BAJAZET<br />

Andiamo. Ingiusto ciel!<br />

Son disperato.<br />

Io più figlia non ho, non ho più trono.<br />

Non son più padre, più <strong>Bajazet</strong> non sono.<br />

Dov’è la figlia?<br />

Dov’è il mio trono?<br />

Non son più padre, più re non sono;<br />

La sorte barbara<br />

non ha più affanno,<br />

non ha più fulmine il ciel tiranno<br />

ch’esser terribile possa per me.<br />

Vede l’istesso nemico fato<br />

che non può farmi<br />

più sventurato,<br />

che se m’uccide, crudel non è.<br />

ANDRONICO<br />

On the throne.<br />

BAJAZET<br />

On what throne?<br />

ANDRONICO<br />

The throne of your enemy.<br />

BAJAZET<br />

Tamerlane?<br />

ANDRONICO<br />

I wish it were not true.<br />

BAJAZET<br />

The unworthy girl!<br />

When? How? Ah, I am betrayed! Tell me!<br />

ANDRONICO<br />

Just now I myself saw her entering the tents<br />

of the Tartar. Led by<br />

vengeance or ambition, she will ascend the throne.<br />

BAJAZET<br />

And you, cowardly lover:<br />

as our enemy, you were able to force her<br />

from the throne that was hers by right –<br />

couldn’t you have blocked her path<br />

to a throne that was not hers?<br />

ANDRONICO<br />

I spoke with her, I shouted at her, but a girl who does not<br />

respect her father is not going to listen to a despised lover.<br />

BAJAZET<br />

Let’s go. Unjust heavens!<br />

I am desperate.<br />

I no longer have a daughter; I no longer have a throne.<br />

I am no longer a father; I am no longer <strong>Bajazet</strong>.<br />

Where is my daughter?<br />

Where is my throne?<br />

I am no longer a father, nor a king;<br />

Savage fate<br />

has no further sorrows,<br />

nor the tyrannous sky any thunderbolts<br />

that could strike terror in me.<br />

Fate, my enemy, can see for itself<br />

that there is nothing it can do<br />

to make me any more wretched,<br />

for if it killed me, that would be no cruel deed.<br />

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