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Con te partirò (Italiaans: /kon ˈte partiˈrɔ/) is een Italiaans lied geschreven door Francesco Sartori (muziek) en Lucio Quarantotto (tekst). De première werd in 1995 verzorgd door Andrea Bocelli op het San Remo Festival.

Het nummer kende een groot succes en is later nog uitgegeven in een versie met Bocelli onder de naam Time to Say Goodbye, waarin gedeeltelijk Engels werd gezongen door de sopraan Sarah Brightman. Een Spaanse versie is bekend onder de naam Por ti Volaré, met een beduidend andere tekst.

"Con te partirò" (Italian: [kon ˈte ppartiˈrɔ]; "With You I Shall Depart") is an Italian song written by Francesco Sartori (music) and Lucio Quarantotto (lyrics). It was first performed by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli at the 1995 Sanremo Music Festival and recorded on his album of the same year, Bocelli. The single was first released as an A-side single with "Vivere" in 1995, topping the charts, first in France, where it became one of the best-selling singles of all-time, and then in Belgium, breaking the all-time record sales there.

A second version of the song, sung partly in English, released in 1996 as "Time to Say Goodbye", paired Bocelli with British soprano Sarah Brightman, and achieved even greater success, topping charts all across Europe, including Germany, where it became the biggest-selling single in history. Brightman and Bocelli produced a version with Brightman singing in German and Bocelli in Italian, with this version being available on the CD Time to Say Goodbye. That version alone has now sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. The song is also known in its Spanish-language version "Por ti volaré" ("For You I Shall Fly").