Dominick Argento - Casa Guidi (Casa Guidi ) lyrics

We more and more like our new apartment
When I am tired of the sofa
We go out on our terrace
Where there is just room for two to walk
Walk back and forward till the moon rises!
And the moon rises beautif’ly, and drops
Down the grey walls of San Felice

We are getting on slowly
In the furnishing department
Robert wants a ducal bed for my
Room all gilding and carving
I persuaded him to get a piano instead

We have had an illumination
Throughout the city
And you in England can’t guess how beautiful
A Florentine illumination is!
The Pitti Palace opposite us was
Drawn out in fire!
You would have thought that all the stars


Out of Heaven had fallen into the piazza

Sometimes he says to me: "Now, Ba
Wouldn’t it have been wrong
If we two had not married?"

I do love this house there’s the truth
"Like a room in a novel
" this room has been called