The opera "Artemisia" (1657) has an aria called "Dammi morte o libertà" ("Give me death or freedom") but the context is different since in the aria, "freedom" is not meant political freedom. Oronta is asking Amor, the personification of love, to free her from love's bonds or to kill her since love's pains are too hard for her to suffer. That is explained in the first stanza ("Give me death or freedom / Oh blind Amor, that so much sufferings, / So much troubles, so much chains / the heart can't bear").