Venetian-English Parallel Translation

Stanzas 62–79, each Venetian verse translated line by line into deliberately “faithful” English (just AI generated).

62

	Venetian (vesum011)	English (vesum005)
62.1	Subito che el l’ha vista s’impossessa	As soon as he has seen her, Love takes possession
62.2	De le calde so viscere l’amor;	Of his warm entrails;
62.3	E el lo assalisce con la forza istessa,	And it assails him with the very same force,
62.4	Come quando, a calmarghe el fiero ardor,	As when, to calm his fierce ardor,
62.5	Giunon la prima volta g’ha concessa	Juno for the first time granted him
62.6	La rara zogia del virgineo fior,	The rare jewel of the virginal flower,
62.7	Che in scondon dei parenti l’è andà in letto	When, hidden from her parents, she went to bed
62.8	Con ella, el stral d’amor ficcà nel petto.	With him, Love’s arrow fixed in her breast.

63

	Venetian (vesum011)	English (vesum006)
63.1	El ghe va incontra, e assae cortesemente	He goes to meet her, and very courteously
63.2	El ghe dise: Giunon, che raro caso!	He says to her: Juno, what a rare event!
63.3	Ti vien da Olimpo frettolosamente,	You come from Olympus in haste,
63.4	E i to cavai no vedo, né el to carro?	And I do not see your horses, nor your chariot?
63.5	Com’estu vegnua qua improvisamente?	How have you come here so suddenly?
63.6	EI to vegnir m’è sommamente caro.	And your coming is supremely dear to me.
63.7	Giunon allora, inganni macchinando	Juno then, contriving deceits,
63.8	Cusì responde a Giove venerando.	Thus answers venerable Jove.

64

	Venetian (vesum011)	English (vesum00 (vesum006))
64.1	Vago verso el confin de l’alma terra	I go toward the boundary of the nurturing earth
64.2	A veder Ocean padre immortal,	To see Ocean, immortal father,
64.3	E Teti madre che in nobil maniera	And mother Tethys, who in noble fashion
64.4	M’ha arlevà in la so casa principal.	Raised me in her chief household.
64.5	Vago a calmarghe l’ira, e quella fiera	I go to calm their anger, and that fierce
64.6	Lite a finir, per causa de la qual	Quarrel to end, because of which
64.7	I xe tanto un de l’altro desgustai,	They are so disgusted with one another,
64.8	Che è secoli che i dorme separai.	That for centuries they have slept apart.

65

	Venetian (vesum011)	English (vesum006)
65.1	I mj cavai, che sul secco a portarme,	My horses, which to carry me over the dry,
65.2	E su l’umido xe ugualmente pronti,	And over the wet, are equally ready,
65.3	Fin che da ti son vegnua a licenziarme	Until I came to you to take my leave,
65.4	A pie del monte ho con reguardo sconti.	I have carefully hidden at the foot of the mountain.
65.5	Tel vegno a dir acciò che rampognarme	I come to tell you this so that reproach me
65.6	No ti possi che senza darte conti	You cannot, saying that without giving you account
65.7	Abbia podesto andar in cao del mondo	I might have been able to go to the end of the world
65.8	Visita a far a l’Oceano profondo.	To pay a visit to deep Ocean.

66

	Venetian (vesum019)	English (vesum007)
66.1	El sforza-nubi ghe responde allora:	The cloud-compeller then answers her:
66.2	Sto to viazzo, Giunon, no desapprovo,	This journey of yours, Juno, I do not disapprove,
66.3	E da qua un poco ti’l tarà in bon ora;	And a little from now you will take it at a good hour;
66.4	Perchè l’ardor carnal, che adesso provo,	Because the carnal ardor that I now feel,
66.5	In vita mia non ho provà gnancora;	In my life I have never yet felt;
66.6	E per sopirlo conveniente trovo,	And to quiet it I find it fitting
66.7	Che ti te fermi, e ti me vegni arente,	That you stop, and that you come near me,
66.8	E che andemo a dormir subitamente.	And that we go to sleep immediately.

67

	Venetian (vesum019)	English (vesum007)
67.1	No me recordo d’aver mai sentio,	I do not remember ever having felt,
67.2	Dopo che ho suzzà el latte d’Amaltea,	Since I sucked the milk of Amalthea,
67.3	Un fogo circolar nel petto mio,	A fire circling in my breast,
67.4	Innamorà de donna, o pur de dea,	Being enamored of woman, or else of goddess,
67.5	Simile a questo, che, come mario,	Similar to this one, which, as husband,
67.6	Me fa vegnir de sodisfarlo idea:	Makes the idea come to me of satisfying it:
67.7	De stuar cara Giunon me sia permesso	To extinguish, dear Juno, let it be permitted me
67.8	L’ardor che sento a stuzzegarme adesso.	The ardor that I feel now teasing me.

68

	Venetian (vesum019)	English (vesum007)
68.1	L’è più grando de quello che ho sentio	It is greater than that which I felt
68.2	Quando de la bellissima mugier	When with the most beautiful wife
68.3	Del famoso Ision me so invaghio,	Of famous Ixion I became enamored,
68.4	Dalla qual quell’illustre consegier	From whom that illustrious counsellor
68.5	Piritoo ho avù che no cedeva a un dio	Pirithous I had, who yielded not to a god
68.6	Spiegando el so savissimo penster.	In unfolding his most wise thought.
68.7	E de questo minor l’ardor xe sta	And less than this was the ardor
68.8	Quando de Danae me so innamorà.	When I fell in love with Danae.

69

	Venetian (vesum019)	English (vesum007)
69.1	Danae d’Acrisio fia da i pie eleganti,	Danae, daughter of Acrisius, with elegant feet,
69.2	Che frutto del mio amor ha messo al mondo	Who as fruit of my love brought into the world
69.3	Perseo, che fra i mortali tutti quanti	Perseus, who among all mortals
69.4	No ha trovà nè compagno, nè segondo.	Found neither companion nor second.
69.5	Nè m’è andà el desiderio tanto avanti	Nor did desire go so far in me
69.6	Quando del gran Fenice omo profondo	When of great Phoenix, a profound man,
69.7	Ho ingravidà la fia, che ha avudo el vanto	I made pregnant the daughter, who had the glory
69.8	De partorir Minosse, e Radamanto.	Of giving birth to Minos and Rhadamanthus.

70

	Venetian (vesum023)	English (vesum008)
70.1	Semele no ho ama tanto, che m’ha fatto	Semele I did not love so much, who made me
70.2	Bacco de l’uman genere letizia;	Bacchus, gladness of the human race;
70.3	Ne per Alcmena, da la qual xe nato	Nor for Alcmene, from whom was born
70.4	Ercole forte ho avù tanta amicizia.	Strong Hercules, did I have so much affection.
70.5	Con la regina Cerere beato	With Queen Ceres, blessed
70.6	Certo no son sta tanto, e la delizia	I certainly was not so much, and the delight
70.7	No la m’ha procurà, seguro son,	She did not procure for me, I am sure,
70.8	Che me promette adesso sta passion.	That this passion now promises me.

71

	Venetian (vesum023)	English (vesum008)
71.1	Con Latona gloriosa tanto gusto	With glorious Latona, so much pleasure
71.2	Certo no ho avù, nè gnanca con ti stessa,	I certainly did not have, nor even with you yourself,
71.3	Quando la prima volta assae robusto	When the first time, very robustly,
71.4	T’ho, Giunon augustissima, compressa	I pressed you, most august Juno,
71.5	Quanto ghe n’averò, come che e giusto,	As much as I shall have of it, as is just,
71.6	In sto ponto, se al mio voler sommessa	At this point, if to my will submitted
71.7	Ti me permetterà de darte un segno,	You will allow me to give you a sign
71.8	Che ti ha parte al mio cuor come al mio regno.	That you have part in my heart as in my kingdom.

72

	Venetian (vesum023)	English (vesum008)
72.1	Giunon dà a sto sermon cusì resposta:	Juno gives this answer to that speech:
72.2	Saturnio importunissimo qual mai	Most importunate Saturnian, as ever,
72.3	M’astu cosa infattibile proposta?	Have you proposed an undoable thing to me?
72.4	Se adesso ti vol render sodisfai	If now you wish to make satisfied
72.5	Sti desiderj toi, sta cima esposta	These desires of yours, this exposed summit
72.6	Me par che la sia troppo, e qua osservai	Seems to me too much, and here observed
72.7	Facilmente saressimo, l’è certo.	We would easily be, that is certain.
72.8	Perché sto logo è troppo descoverto.	For this place is too uncovered.

73

	Venetian (vesum023)	English (vesum008)
73.1	Cosa sarave mai se per azzardo	What would ever happen if by chance
73.2	Qualcun de i eterni dei per qua passasse,	One of the eternal gods passed this way,
73.3	E quella cosa a far senza reguardo	And doing that thing without regard
73.4	Ne vedesse, e che pò pronto l’andasse	Saw us, and then promptly went
73.5	A dirlo ai altri, e che de tutti al sguardo	To tell it to the others, and before everyone’s gaze
73.6	Là esposti con rason i ne burlasse?	There exposed, with reason, they mocked us?
73.7	Levandome de letto, zogia mia,	Rising from bed, my jewel,
73.8	A casa certo più no tornaria.	Home I certainly would never return.

74

	Venetian (vesum010)	English (vesum013)
74.1	Ti vedi quanto giusta e ben fondada	You see how just and well-founded
74.2	Sarave la vergogna che avarave	Would be the shame that I would have.
74.3	Purchè la cosa no se razza in strada	Provided the thing is not spread in the street,
74.4	El sodisfarte no me sarà grave.	Satisfying you will not be burdensome to me.
74.5	Andemo in la to alcova fabbricada	Let us go into your alcove, built
74.6	Da Vulcan fio diletto, che con chiave	By dear son Vulcan, who with key
74.7	Gh’ha adattà porte in l’una, e l’altra banda,	Has fitted doors there on one and the other side,
74.8	E là desposta son: Mario comanda.	And there I am disposed: let the husband command.

75

	Venetian (vesum010)	English (vesum013)
75.1	L’aduna-nubi Giove in sta maniera	Cloud-gathering Jove in this manner
75.2	A Giunon ha resposto, e l’ha persuasa:	Answered Juno, and persuaded her:
75.3	No gh’avemo bisogno de renghiera	We have no need of haranguing
75.4	Per sto negozio, nè d’andar a casa;	For this business, nor of going home;
75.5	Ma a la bona buttemose qua in terra,	But simply let us throw ourselves here on the ground,
75.6	E femo el fatto nostro in bona rasa;	And do our business in plain fashion;
75.7	E da dei, o da Omeni no temo,	And from gods or from men I do not fear
75.8	Che visti, e descoverti esser possiemo.	That we can be seen and discovered.

76

	Venetian (vesum010)	English (vesum013)
76.1	Farò che intorno ne circonda adesso	I shall make it so that now around us surrounds
76.2	Una nuvola lucida, e indorada,	A shining and gilded cloud,
76.3	Che a traverso de ella el sol istesso	Through which the very sun itself
76.4	A penetrar no troverà la strada;	Will not find the way to penetrate;
76.5	Sibben che aver per tutto gh’è concesso	Although everywhere it is granted to it
76.6	Col so lume acutissimo l’intrada.	With its very sharp light to have entry.
76.7	Saturnio in dir cusì fra i brazzi serra	The Saturnian, saying so, in his arms clasps
76.8	La so consorte, e va a sentarse in terra.	His consort, and goes to sit down on the ground.

77

	Venetian (vesum015)	English (vesum014)
77.1	La madre Terra sotto ghe fornisce	Mother Earth beneath provides for them
77.2	A mò cussin freschetta erba novella,	As a sort of cushion, fresh new grass,
77.3	E ’l Coton rugiadoso, che condisce,	And the dewy cotton-plant, which adorns,
77.4	E ’l grato zaffaran, che s’inanella	And the pleasant saffron, which coils itself
77.5	Con el denso Giacinto, che ammollisce,	With the thick hyacinth, which softens,
77.6	E ghe rende più comoda la sella.	And makes the seat more comfortable for them.
77.7	St’erbe, e fiori con studio sparpagnai	These herbs and flowers, carefully scattered,
77.8	Li tegniva da terra sollevai.	Kept them lifted from the ground.

78

	Venetian (vesum015)	English (vesum014)
78.1	La felice cocchietta questa è stada	This was the happy little couch
78.2	Dove s’ha collegà sta coppia eterna.	Where this eternal couple joined together.
78.3	La nuvola bellissima, e indorada	The most beautiful and gilded cloud
78.4	No concede che altri li discerna.	Does not allow others to discern them.
78.5	Intorno tanto ben la gh’è adattada,	Around them it is so well fitted,
78.6	Che i ghe ne par vestii: bontà superna	That they seem clothed in it: supernal goodness
78.7	Fava che da la nuvola stillasse	Made it so that from the cloud there dripped
78.8	Laustra rosada, e che li imbalsamasse.	Lustrous dew, and that it perfumed them.

79

	Venetian (vesum015)	English (vesum014)
79.1	Padre Giove cusì dormiva quieto	Father Jove thus slept quietly
79.2	Del Gargaro su l’alta sommità,	On Gargaron’s high summit,
79.3	Nè el gera più patron del so intelletto	Nor was he any longer master of his intellect,
79.4	Dal grato sonno, e da l’amor domà;	By pleasant sleep and by love subdued;
79.5	El se tegniva fra le brazza stretto	He held, clasped within his arms,
79.6	De so mugier el corpo inzuccherà,	The sugared body of his wife,
79.7	E intanto Sonno con gran pressa corre	And meanwhile Sleep with great haste runs
79.8	A le nave de i greghi, e li soccorre.	To the ships of the Greeks, and helps them.