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Dear, my heart, may you come alive again, be reborn, on this day when she was born who gave me life--her strong soul needed lend no wings for her journey to paradise. From her earliest days a light shone from her flesh, her eyes--her awakened soul knew what was honesty. She always acted rightly, and in the iron of her glance great beauty hid. I know she prays to You for us, but, gentle Lord, pray her to pray for me to feel her vital force working, to loosen, no, break these bonds which chain me to the earth, that this human frame may serve my soul and my soul may serve only God. |
An image of the Italian text from Visconti's 1840 edition |
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Notes: From V CXV:275 ("Rammenta il giorno del nascimento di Agnese da Monte Feltro sua madre, gia morta: e desidera troverasi in cielo con essolei". See also B S2:22:188, R XIIII:425-26 (suggests it is to the Virgin Mary); MSs L, V2 (Ve2) A, CASI, Pr, RA; in 1539, 1540/2; 1548 Valgrisi; 1760 Rota. Translation: Roscoe 61 (translates as to VC's mother) with which Reumont concurs (p. 119). Key |
