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'''''Questa o quella''''' was a [[music|song]] from the [[Italy|Italian]] [[opera]] ''[[Rigoletto]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]], from the [[19th century]].
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'''''Questa o quella''''' was a [[music|song]] from the [[Italy|Italian]] [[opera]] ''[[Rigoletto]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] from the [[19th century]].
   
[[The Doctor]] sang the song in the cockpit of the [[Delta Flyer]] on an away mission in [[2377]]. ([[VOY]]: "[[Renaissance Man]]")
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[[The Doctor]] sang the song in the cockpit of the ''[[Delta Flyer]]'' on an [[away mission]] in [[2377]]. ([[VOY]]: "[[Renaissance Man]]")
   
   
 
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Revision as of 18:59, 2 March 2006

Questa o quella was a song from the Italian opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi from the 19th century.

The Doctor sang the song in the cockpit of the Delta Flyer on an away mission in 2377. (VOY: "Renaissance Man")


Questa o quella
Italian English
Questa o quella per me pari sono
A quant’altre d’intorno mi vedo,
Del mio core l’impero non cedo
Meglio ad una che ad altra belta.
La costoro avvenenza e qual dono
Di che il fato ne infiora la vita;
S’oggi questa mi torna gradita,
Forse un’altra doman lo sara.
Amongst the beauties here around,
Over me none have control;
None can say, "I am preferred;"
Equal love I feel for all.
Yes, all women are to me
Like the flowers of the field.
Now to this, I am inclined,
Now to that by chance I yield.
La costanza, tiranna del core,
Detestiamo qual morbo crudele,
Sol chi vuole si serbi fedele;
Non v’ha amor, se non v’e liberta.
De’ mariti il geloso furore,
Degli amanti le smanie derido,
Anco d’Argo i cent’occhi disfido
Se mi punge una qualche belta.
As one flies from a great peril,
So from constancy I fly;
Those who will, may faithful be,
In freedom only does love lie.
I despise a jealous husband,
And I laugh at lover's sighs-
If a beauty strikes my fancy,
I defy one hundred eyes.