Dio, come ti amo preceding France's Dominique Walter with Chez nous). At the close of voting, it had received the dreaded "nul points" (zero), for the first and also the only time in Italian Eurovision history, placing 17th (equal last) in a field of 18. It was succeeded as Italian representative at the 1967 Contest by Claudio Villa with "Non andare più lontano". Sergio Franchi recorded an English/Italian version of this song [titled "Oh How Much I Love You" (Dio, come ti amo!")] in 1967 on his RCA Victor album "From Sergio - With Love." Shirley Bassey recorded a version of the song titled
O Deus ego amo te which has fused and crystallized them in its fiercest heat" (p. 300). The Scriptural text for both hymns might well be II Cor., v, 14, 15, or perhaps better still I John, iv, 19 – "Let us therefore love God, because God hath first loved us". The text of both hymns is given in Daniel's "Thesaurus Hymnologicus", II, 335; of the second hymn, with notes, in March's "Latin Hymns", 190, 307 etc. O Deus ego amo te O Deus ego amo te (Latin for "O God I love you") may refer to one of two Latin lyrics sometimes attributed to