Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
avvampò
English translation:
flushed, blushed
Apr 4, 2003 06:49
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Italian term
Si fè smorta avvampò!
Italian to English
Art/Literary
Music
opera
Opera iPuritani. Elvira has gone mad. She experiences a brief flash of sanity but now descends once more into madness. Her ladies observe:
Si tramutò! Si fè smorta avvampò!
Si tramutò! Si fè smorta avvampò!
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| 4 | She went pale (and then) she blushed! |
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She went pale (and then) she blushed!
A contrast between the pallid serenity of Elvira's "flash of sanity" with the inflamed intensity of her consequent madness.
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