by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Quando incise su quel marmo
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Available translation(s): ENG
Questa è la valle, il sasso è questo
in cui di Gilda al nome unito
il mio nome è scolpito,
e in queste guise,
se tradirmi volea, perché l'incise?
Quando incise su quel marmo
l'infedele il nome mio,
invocando il cieco Dio,
fede eterna a me giurò.
Spergiura! e questa pietra
il mio nome addita ancora,
ma l'idea di chi t'adora,
nel tuo sen si cancellò.
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , title 1: "When she carved on this marble", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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When she carved on this marble
Language: English  after the Italian (Italiano)
This is the valley, the stone on which
Gilda’s name together
with my name is carved
but [why] in this manner,
if she would [eventually] betray me, why engrave it?
When she carved on this marble
faithless, my name,
calling on the blind God,
she swore eternal faith to me.
Perjurer! and this stone
still bears my name,
but the idea of [the] one who adores you,
[has been] erased from your bosom.
Note: the "blind God" is Cupid, God of Love.
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