Italian to English: Seventeenth Century Italian Poetry Detailed field: Poetry & Literature | |
Source text - Italian "Iniquo è il mondo, è ver, ma tale è stato
da quel’hora fatal che sorse e naqque…
lascia al Tempo la cura, e il labro taccia…
Bastami solo in quest’età corrotta
senza adulazion né falsi orpelli,
in Pindo haver la Verità condotta,
dato a le Tosche Satire I modelli"
| Translation - English The world is unfair, it is true, but it has always been so
from that fatal hour in which it was born...
Let time be the cure and let lips be silent...
Suffice it to say that in this corrupt age
with neither flattery nor falsity
I have brought the truth to Pindus
and provided the model for Tuscan satire |