Vide Cor Meum

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Florence opera scene from Hannibal

Vide cor meum (See my heart) is an aria composed by Irish composer Patrick Cassidy based on Dante Alighieri's Vita Nova, specifically on the sonnet A ciascun'alma presa, third chapter.

Composition[]

The song was produced by Patrick Cassidy and Hans Zimmer, and was performed by Libera / The Lyndhurst Orchestra, conducted by Gavin Greenaway. The main voices belong to Danielle de Niese and  [it] who sing some fragments taken from Vita Nova, supposedly assembled with no grammatical or syntactic sequence. The result of this technique is in fact a heterogeneous but harmonic composition; its lyrics allow the audience to be participant of an extraordinary event—an inner dream and unearthly dialog, to which Dante Alighieri (in Florentin dialect) and God (in Latin) take part; Amore, Beatrice and Dante's heart are the main topic. So the linguistic "nonsense" becomes pure illusion.^{[citation needed]}

Lyrics[]

External links[]

• References to Dante in the movie Hannibal, archived from greatdante.net