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Baldassarre Castiglione
on the Ruins of Rome
Here's another influential
poem on the ruins of Rome, by Baldassarre Castiglione, author of the
Book of the Courtier. (Janus Vitalis' poem is
here). For reasons unknown to me, a Wikipedia
excerpt from this poem has been spammed all over the internet:
Superbi colli, e voi sacre
ruine,
Che ’l nome sol di Roma ancor tenete,
Ahi che reliquie miserande avete
Di tant’anime eccelse e pellegrine!
Colossi, archi, teatri, opre divine,
Trïonfal pompe glorïose e liete,
In poco cener pur converse siete,
E fatte al vulgo vil favola alfine.
Così, se ben un tempo al tempo guerra
Fanno l’opre famose, a passo lento
e l’opre e i nomi il tempo invido atterra.
Vivrò dunque fra’
miei martir contento;
Che se ’l tempo dà
fine a ciò ch’è in terra,
Darà forse ancor fine al mio tormento.
http://www.repubblicaletteraria.net/BaldassarreCastiglione.html
Translations by Bellay, Scarron, Lope De Vega;
includes Dutch translations too. I cannot read the Dutch text and am
not sure which Dutch translations are by the author of the study,
and which are Dutch literary translations:
http://www.focquenbroch.nl/bibliotheek/seclit/DeLigt(75).pdf
More Dutch
writing on Castiglione:
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/ligt004uitd01/ligt004uitd01_0001.htm
This link
lists the following translators of Castiglione's poem: Joachim du
Bellay (Antiquitez de Rome, n. VII), Lope de Vega, Paul Scarron,
Gutierre de Cetira, Andrés Rey de Artieda, Nicolò d’Arco, Lazzaro
Buonamico and Jean Flemingue.
http://www.repubblicaletteraria.net/BaldassarreCastiglione.html
Las versiones del soneto de Castiglione sin el
trueque de Roma por Cartago no aparecen sino más tarde, en la
"Traducción de Artemídoro": "Sacros collados, sombras y ruynas, /
que mostráys lo que Roma un tiempo ha sido," Discursos, epístolas
y epigramas de Artemidor, sacados a luz por Micer Andrés Rey de
Artieda (Zaragoza, 160:?), p. 102; apud Joseph Imilla, "Notes sur le
sonnet Supcrbi Colli. (Rectificaciones y Suplemento),"
Boletín de ¡a Biblioteca Menéndez Pelayo, 31 (1955):
http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/aih/pdf/06/aih_06_1_191.pdf
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