Dalla guerra amorosa

Other catalogues of Handel's music have referred to the work as HG l,34; (there is no HHA numbering).

[1] The title of the cantata roughly translates as "From the war of amorous passion".

[2] Dalla guerra amorosa, is thought to be among the works written for Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Cerveteri, as the manuscript source is a copy made for Ruspoli in August 1709.

This work is delicate and even poignant – the aria to the fading of beauty, La bellezza è come un fiore, is reminiscent of Come rosa in su la spina in Apollo e Dafne.

Che la sera langue e more, si scolora e non par quello.