[Otello]
Now in the dense night
Every noise is silenced.

Now my furious heart
Is appeased by this embrace
And becomes calm.

Let war thunder and the world be engulfed!
If after such immense wrath
Comes this immense love.


[Desdemona]
My superb warrior!

How many torments,
And how much hope
Led us to this tender embrace!

Ah! How sweet it is to murmur together;
Do you remember?
When you told me of your exile

The fierce events and you long sorrows,
And I listened to you with my soul enthralled
I those fears and with ecstasy and in my heart.


[Otello]
I described the clang of arms, the fighting,

And the bold rush into the mortal breach,
The attack, the dreadful clamour!
Hanging on the ramparts by our very nails alone.

Also, the whistling arrow.

[Desdemona]

Then you lead me to the shining deserts,
The burning sands, your native land.
Then you told me of the sufferings you had endured,

The chains and the slave's arrow.

[Otello]

Your lovely face ennobled the story.
With shed tears and your sighs.
On my darkness descended glory,

Such bliss and the stars gave their thanks.

[Desdemona]

And after dark such architecture I saw.
The ethereal beauty of genius shine.


[Otello]
And you loved me for my misfortunes
And I loved you for your pity.


[Desdemona]
And you loved me for my misfortunes

And you loved me for my pity.

[Otello]

Let death come!
Let it take me in the ecstasy of this embrace,
This supreme moment!

Such is the joy of my soul.
That I am afraid,
That I will not be granted

This magnificent moment
In the future of my destiny.


[Desdemona]
Let the firmament dispel all sorrows
And love not is changed as the years pass.


[Otello]
To this plea of yours

May all answer yes!

[Desdemona]

May the answer is yes.

[Otello]

A joy engulfs me
So fiercely...
It makes me feel breathless...
A kiss...
Another kiss...

The glowing Pleiades [stars]
Already descend to the sea.

[Desdemona]
The night is late.


[Otello]
Come... Venus shining star.