Talk:Boiardo Tarocchi Poem: Chapter 4 - Amore
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CAPITULO QUARTO DE AMORE (Arrows (dardi))
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[edit] Card 1
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1. AMORE, un che cum te cerchi bon stato,
Sollicito, animoso e prompto sia,
Che, nel fin, a chi dura el pregio è dato.
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1. LOVE, if someone wants to be in good relations with you,
He has to be ready, courageous and prompt,
For, in the end, who holds on wins the prize.
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[edit] Card 2
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2. AMOR, dubio non è che gelosia
In qualche parte ognor non te acompagni:
Ma poca è bona, e troppa è cosa ria.
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2. 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.
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[edit] Card 3
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3. AMOR, termine e fin de toi guadagni
E un sempre sospirar infin a morte;
E chi un di ride, un'anno advien se lagni.
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3. LOVE, the end and final goal of your earnings
Is a continuous sighing until you die;
And he who laughs one day, cries thereafter for an year.
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[edit] Card 4
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4. AMOR, questo disio stringe si forte
Di consequir quel che gl'imprime al core,
Che al effecto non par che se aprin porte.
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4. LOVE, this desire holds so strong
Of aquiring what you impress in one's heart,
That it seems that doors do not open for your aim.
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[edit] Card 5
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5. AMOR ce insegna non aver timore
In qual se voglia impresa: ché un ardito
Sempre ne la sua corte è vincitore.
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5. LOVE teaches to us not to be afraid
In every deed: because a courageous
Is always a winner in courtship.
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[edit] Card 6
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6. AMOR, se qualche volta ha un cor ferito,
E lo resani cum quel proprio strale,
Oh quanto è nel suo regno favorito!
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6. LOVE, if sometimes you wound an heart,
And heal it with that same arrow,
How much it is favoured in your kingdom!
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[edit] Card 7
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7. AMOR, septe anni andar, come animale,
Fece quel savio re : ché la sua lege
El principe al suo servo adduce equale.
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7. LOVE made that wise king go
As an animal for seven years: because its law
Makes the prince equal to his own servant.
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This could seem a reference to the Book of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar: but this episode has nothing to do with love. I think there must be some other king an a similar story in an Arthurian Romance?
4:30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? 4:31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. 4:32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
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[edit] Card 8
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8. AMORE obtenne, che a guardar la grege
D'Ameto Apollo stesse, e a lui crudele
Non fu al fin poi; ma cusi i suoi correge.
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8. LOVE made so that Apollon looked after
The herd of Admetus, and in the end it was not
Cruel to him; it corrects its people in such ways.
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External Links to Content Problems http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/demoarea/details/1964_1.142.html
[edit] Card 9
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9. AMOR nov'arte trova; e sotto el mele
L'esca tien sempre; e i soi servi contenta,
Quando se ne ritrova alcun fidele.
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9. LOVE finds new arts; and under its honey
It always keeps a bait; and it makes its servants happy,
Whenever it finds one that is loyal.
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[edit] Card 10
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10. AMOR de ciascun servo il disio tenta;
E se `l ritrova vano, in forme tante
Il volgie, che ogni di piu se lamenta.
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10. LOVE puts to trial the desire of all its servants;
And if it finds it vain, it turns it
in so many shapes, that he complaints more every day.
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[edit] Card Amor / Page
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11. AMOR questo gran Cyclope gigante
Fece per Galatea tanto amoroso,
Che piu de lui forse non arse amante.
English translation
11. LOVE made this big giant Cyclops
So full of love for Galatea,
That possibly no lover burned as much as he did.
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An ancient Boiardo Card: http://www.geocities.com/autorbis/boiardo-Dateien/fandar.jpg
[edit] Card Amor / Knight
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12. AMOR Paride fece si animoso,
Che ardito fu rapir Elena bella,
Ché ciascun cor Amor fa generoso.
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12. LOVE made Paris so courageous,
That he dared to abduct beautiful Helen,
Beacause Love makes each heart generous.
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[edit] Card Amor / Queen
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13. AMORE, a Vener figlio, fece che ella
Per Adone arse e per lui tanto accese:
Ché Amor infonde ancor dal ciel sua stella.
English translation
13. LOVE, the son of Venus, made her
Burn for Adonis and with such flames:
Because Love infuses its star also from heaven.
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[edit] Card Amor / King
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14. 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.
English translation
14. 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.
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Episods from Ovid's Metamorphoses
Whoo seeing Jove whom heathen folke doo arme with triple fyre In shape of Eagle, bull or swan to winne his foule desyre.
Leonardo: Leda and the swan
Raphael: "the rain of gold" "la pioggia d'oro"
Michelangelo: Ganymedes
Durer: the Rape of Europa
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http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/ovid00.htm
