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La vittoria
Original Language: Italian
Il gran Giove non si gloria
D’altre belle esser amante;
Gode solo il dio costante
Quando in seno è di Vittoria.
La Vittoria d’un bel Rovere
Al suo Giove adorna il crine,
Nel cui verde in aure e brine
Già la Gloria venne a piovere.
Nacque già nobil primitia,
Già gli rese il ciel fecondi;
Ma d’Etruria anco i sei mondi
D’alti Eroi voglion dovitia.
Poet:
English
Victory (Vittoria)*
Great Jupiter glories in being
the lover of no other beauty
the steadfast god is content only
in the affections of Victory.
Victory of a beautiful Rovere (oak laurel)
adorns the hair of her Jupiter,
from which glory rains down
in green and golden frost.
Now the noble heir is born,**
already heaven has made her fertile;
but from Tuscany the six worlds
of great heroes will yet give riches.
Translated by:
Richard Kolb
* i.e. Vittoria della Rovere
** Cosimo III was born August 14, 1642.
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La Vittoria
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