Esiliatevi pene funeste

La vanità del mondo
La vanità del mondo
by Pietro Torri
	First page of the Italian autograph of Torri's La Vanita del Mondo
English	The Vanity of the World
Period	Baroque
Genre	oratorio
Premiere
Date	5 March 1706; after 1715 (Italian);
Location	Brussels (French Version); Possibly Munich;

"Esiliatevi pene funeste" is an aria from the oratorio La Vanità del Mondo by Pietro Torri. The CD La Vanità del Mondo names Carlo Francesco Melchiori as the librettist^[2]. The autograph at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek does not credit any.

The first performance in Brussels took place in 1706 in French; the mentioned score is possibly from a Munich performance after 1715.^[1]

Piacere (Engl.: Pleasure) is an anthropomorphic personification, joined by Anima (the Soul), Grazia (Grace) and il Mondo (the World).

Esiliatevi pene funeste appears on the following album:

Year	Album	Ensemble
2020	La Vanità del Mondo (Album)	Ensemble Artaserse

Libretto

Esiliatevi pene funeste

(Be banished, gloomy sorrows)

(Piacere)

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	Ancient Italian
Esiliatevi pene funeste Ite lungi tempeste frementi Voi dolci Contenti correte volate su l'alma versate di gioia i torrenti.* Source: Autograph Munich, 1715 or later^[1] *)The available autograph clearly says "tormenti". It was changed to "torrenti" in the booklet^[2]. It seems to make more sense than "torments of joy".

	Modernized Italian
Esiliatevi, pene funeste Ite lungi tempeste frementi! Voi, dolci contenti, correte, volate Su l'alma versate di gioia i torrenti!* *)The available autograph clearly says "tormenti". It was changed to "torrenti" in the booklet^[2]. It seems to make more sense than "torments of joy".


Be banished, gloomy sorrows, Away with you, fretful storms. You, sweet delights, hurry and fly On the soul pour torrents of joy.^[3]

Incipit of "Esiliatevi, pene funeste", manuscript, 1715 or later^[1]

La Vanità del mondo, V (4), Coro, strings, ob (2) - BSB Mus.ms. 232

Torri, Pietro. "La Vanità del mondo, Autograph in Italian, after 1715". Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Torri, Pietro. "La Vanità del mondo, Autograph in Italian, after 1715". Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "Philippe Jaroussky, La Vanità del Mondo". JPC. Archived from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
↑ English translation by FR, 2021