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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations and Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Nature of Invention, in Word and Image
- 1 Reviving the Corpse
- 2 Writing Architecture
- 3 Sperulo's Vision
- 4 Encomia of the Unbuilt
- 5 Metastructures of Word and Image
- 6 Dynamic Design
- Conclusion: Building With Mortar and Verse
- APPENDIX I Francesco Sperulo, Villa Iulia Medica versibus fabricata/ The Villa Giulia Medicea Constructed in Verse: critical edition and translation by Nicoletta Marcelli and gloss by the Author
- APPENDIX II Francesco Sperulo, Villa Iulia Medica versibus fabricata: Analysis of the presentation manuscript
- APPENDIX III Francesco Sperulo, Ad Leonem X de sua clementia elegia xviiii
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
APPENDIX III - Francesco Sperulo, Ad Leonem X de sua clementia elegia xviiii
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations and Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Nature of Invention, in Word and Image
- 1 Reviving the Corpse
- 2 Writing Architecture
- 3 Sperulo's Vision
- 4 Encomia of the Unbuilt
- 5 Metastructures of Word and Image
- 6 Dynamic Design
- Conclusion: Building With Mortar and Verse
- APPENDIX I Francesco Sperulo, Villa Iulia Medica versibus fabricata/ The Villa Giulia Medicea Constructed in Verse: critical edition and translation by Nicoletta Marcelli and gloss by the Author
- APPENDIX II Francesco Sperulo, Villa Iulia Medica versibus fabricata: Analysis of the presentation manuscript
- APPENDIX III Francesco Sperulo, Ad Leonem X de sua clementia elegia xviiii
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Author's transcription, preserving the capitalization and punctuation of the manuscript, apparently autograph, but spelling out abbreviations.
Parcere supplicibus gaudet generosa Leonum
Ira: magisque nihil quam superasse iuvat:
Si tamen hostis amet contra temerarius ire,
Et nequeat cautus subdere frena timor,
Tum cauda ardescens surgentia terga flagellat,
Inque cruorem furens protinus ira natat:
Imperiumque olli natura dedisse ferarum
Censetur: tanti est nobilis ille furor:
Quod si nativo decus hoc fera sentit ab usu,
Quod nam hominum studio par decus esse queat!
Ergo tibi imperium superi quam iure dederunt
Summe Leo! rerum quam bene te esse caput!
Nomine in hoc omen: secum gerit imperii vim,
Interque astra Leo non satis unus erat:
Tu quoque fulgebis tanto sublimius: ipse
Quanto homini praestas, praestat et ille feris:
Iam tu materies de nobilitatem: Nepotes
Exemplo minuent maxima quaeque tuo:
Namque per insidias solum non nuper ademptus
Monstrasti mentis culmina quanta tuae:
Vicisti, arbitriumque tibi vitaeque necisque
Hostis erat: totum hoc denique in hostem fuit:
Ultoris iustas animi cognoscere vires
Commeritus, sero poenituisse gemit:
At lachrymis culpam fassus precibusque, superbae
Sensit inexhaustam nobilitatis opem:
Quem dudum impietas stimulis male torxit iniquis,
Iustitiae hunc pietas de manibus rapuit:
Perderem qui voluit modo te livore, salutem
Supplicibus lachrymis te tribuisse videt,
Miratur, votisque pavet felicibus: usque
Est adeo errati conscia culpa sui:
Servatas miratur opes, miratur honores:
Et quem crudelem fecerat, esse pium:
Admonitusque sui, nunc demum vivere coepit,
Profecit tecum crimine quippe suo:
Inter sacra, virum paci et tibi qui fuit hostis,
En circum pacis munera ferre iubes:
Et placidem amplexus lachrymis testaris obortis
Plus licuisse illi, quam libuisse tibi:
Quodque animi est insigne tui, sponte arma trementi
Restituis: rursus fiet an ille nocens!
Unguibus ex aquilae sic lapsa columba reverti
Audeat: an parvum pignus in hoste timor!
Vindicta o felix, in qua de pace triumphat
Victor: et in victo culpa triumphus erit.
Finis tertii libri, seguitur quartus in Laudem Virginis et matris dei Mariae
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- Architectural Invention in Renaissance RomeArtists, Humanists, and the Planning of Raphael's Villa Madama, pp. 226 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018