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Your exquisitely lovely poetry and noble standpoint have now been given a worthy subject: you can make the names of those who gave you life live forever. I see you alone have wings to equal the merit of two who brought forth a son to whom they gave as much as the stars give the greatest genius who achieves the most. The task is yours to sing--with the secret harmonies of music our age harkened to, honored as antique--flutes from far off-- say once upon a time these freed souls lived and died together, and in one moment they flew oh quickly to another place. |
An image of the Italian text from Visconti's 1840 edition |
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Notes: From V XXXVIII:38 and B E18:212. See also R CXVIII, 34; MSs F1, L, CASI, RA; 1538/9, 1540-2/44-6; 1552/59-60;1586; 1760 Rota. A second to Francesco Maria Molza on the death of his parents; his answer, "Ben fu nemico il mio destin fatale" is in MS L; R p 392 & V p 414. Key |
