Jacopo Palma il Vecchio, Nymphs bathing (Diana and Callisto), c. 1525 The gods’ vengeance does exist. Blessed is anyonewho blinds off the day’s weft without weeping.I thought, I sing Agido’s light. I lookupon her as upon the sun, which Agido invokes to shine for us as a witness. Our celebrated chorusleader prevent me from either …
Titian (Tiziano), The Bacchanal of the Andrians, c. 1526 We’ve life and nothing else. Life is delight–But short. Be off dull cares! Today life sharesIts wine and dances, flowers and pretty girls.Live well. One can’t know what tomorrow brings. Questo e nient’altro è la vita:la vita è piacere,Alla malora le angosce.È breve il tempo per …
Dosso Dossi, Circe and her Lovers in a Landscape, c. 1525 I do not want to whimper over life, as many have done, and wise men too, nor am I sorry I have lived, since my way of life has not led me to think I was born in vain, and I depart from life …
Max Klinger, Love, Death And Beyond, 1881 When a man dies,all the goodwill from men perishes. Colla mortesvanisce ogni favore umano. Go back to album – Greek and Roman
Giovanni Andrea Podestà, Putti in a landscape, 1650 Show wisdom. Strain clear the wine; and since life is brief, cut short far-reaching hopes!Even while we speak, envious Time has sped.Reap the harvest of to-day,putting as little trust as may be in the morrow! Da saggia versaci il tuo vino:le troppe speranze contieni in termini brevi:parli …
Giovanni Bellini, Orpheus, c. 1515 In spring Cydonian apple-trees,watered by fountains ever flowingthrough crofts unmown of maiden goddesses,and young vines, ’neath the shadeof shooting tendrils, tranquilly are growing.Meanwhile for me, Love, never laidin slumber, like a north wind glowingwith Thracian lightnings, still doth dartblood-parching madness on my heart,from Kupris hurtling, stormful, wild,lording the man as …
Ibycus (Ibico) – Come il vento del nord rosso di fulmini / Dry North wind Read More »
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