Boiardo Tarocchi Poem | /// |
Trump Pair 02 | |||
Actheon was inflamed of love for an heavenly Person, so much that he was transformed in deer: So a man should not put his desire too high. Actheon was inflamed of love for an heavenly Person, so much that he was transformed in deer: So a man should not put his desire too high. |
Ragion fe’ Laura del fanciul perverso Cupìdo trionfar, ché mai non torse Occhio da la virtù né il piè in traverso. Reason made Laura triumph over the perverted Child Cupidus, because she never moved Her eye from virtue nor misplaced her foot. |
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4 Suits 02 | |||
TIMOR, dov'è qualche pericol, vieta Pigliar piacere, e tanto un om fa vile, Che l'animo ragion mai non acquieta. FEAR, where there is some danger, forbids All pleasure, and makes a man so faint-hearted, That reason can never appease the soul. |
GELOSIA è dura cosa, ove esser vede Commodo al concorrente nel amore: Chè al spesso supplicar segue merzede. JEALOUSY is a hard thing, when it seeks to be useful to the rival in love: Because often imploring grants mercy. |
SPERANZA dubio alcun non ha smarrita, Ma sta ferma e constante in fino al fine, Quando Ragione il suo sperare aita. HOPE has never been defeated by any doubt, But it is solid and constant to the end, When Reason arrives to help hope. |
AMOR, dubio non è che gelosia In qualche parte ognor non te acompagni: Ma poca è bona, e troppa è cosa ria. LOVE, there is no doubt that jealousy Is always with you many places: But if it is little, it's good, too much is bad. |