| Boiardo Tarocchi Poem | /// |
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TIMOR Dyonisio del tonsore in vece Uso le proprie figlie, cum carboni Per fugir ferro; e al fin non fugi nece. Ché mal se fugge quel che 'l ciel dispone FEAR: Dionysius, instead of a barber, Had his own daughters shave him with coals, in order To avoid iron; and in the end he did not avoid it. Because it is difficult to avoid what has been decided by heaven. |
GELOSIA fe' Vulcano in forme nove Pigliar Vener e Marte entro le rete, E il Sol ne fece manifeste prove. Con gli ecclipsi soi, segni e comete JEALOUSY made Vulcan change his shape And catch Venus and Mars in his own net, And the Sun made the proofs be manifest, With its eclipses, signs and comets. |
SPERANZA Enea fuor del Trojan confine Guido in Italia; e i successor fondorno Alba e poi Roma a le genti Latine. Che domitor del mondo un tempo forno. HOPE drove Eneas out of the Trojan border To Italy; and his successors founded Alba and then Rome for the Latin people. Who once were the rulers of the world. |
AMOR fece che Jove già discese In varie forme, in tauro, in cygno, in oro, E Ganymede in aquila ancor prese. E fe' Pasiphe innamorar de un Toro. LOVE made Jove descend many times In different shapes, of bull, of swan, of gold, And, in shape of eagle, he also took Ganymedes. And it made Pasiphe fall in love with a Bull |