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As your mind won't maintain the smallest lie, as eternal truths enrich and sustain its inmost recesses where you preserve a true picture of how this world began, perhaps, driven by an eager burning passion--like that of young lovers who want always to have more, never tire of each another--you'll welcome this familiar image; so I thought, as your new mother, humble servant, I'd send you a drawing of what a Master created in you, and let me add please don't be troubled if this in part resembles the picture you're always aiming nobly to imitate. |
An image of the Italian text from Visconti's 1840 edition |
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Notes: From V CCV:365. See also B S1:142:156; No MSs; Valgrisi 143. Translation: Jerrold 132 (as to Michelangelo). It is to Reginald Pole; in Valgrisi it is 3rd in a series of 4 poems, one of which is to Frederigo Fregoso. She sent a drawing of Christ to Michelangelo, but the attributed high learng, the tone, the details suggest this older churchly man. I suggest VC sent an image to Michelangelo; she then sent the image he made to Pole (between 1531-1541) Key |
