This song, whose title translates as "Approach Not the Urn, " is a setting of a poem by Jacopo Vittorelli in which a dead man addresses a woman who betrayed him in life. Now he has no sympathy for her feelings, and asks that she stay away from the urn that contains his ashes. The minor-mode introduction establishes an appropriately dolorous tone, and the vocal line powerfully and directly expresses the painful sentiments of the text, featuring some pungently affective leaps of pitch along the way. The third verse, beginning "Empia! Empia!" ("Cruel one! Cruel one!"), starts with some arrestingly declamatory punctuation and strikingly speeds up the tempo. The fourth verse returns to the gliding lyricism of the opening, with the sadness and bitterness of expression always intact. Repeated chords are always prominent in the accompaniment.

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