Transcriptions Facsimile
Transcription
Relatione
di molte Pitture eccellenti
scritta
A Mons. Illmo Millini [sic] Nuntio di Spagna
A Madrid
da
Pietro Millini suo Fratello di Roma
Il p.o Febraro 1681Capitolo [primo]
Quel desio, ch’hebbi in sen per lunga etate
Di saper’ da qual man già furo espresse
Le Pitture da gl’Avi a noi lasciate
Adempire alla fin pur mi concise
D’huomini egregij la virtu palese,
Che le avvicinar, benche dal fato oppresse;
Onde si bene, e quello, e questo intese,
Che noto a noi degl’Inventori il nome
Delle tele dipinte hormai si rese,
E acciò non siano all’avvenir pur come
Il passato già fur dal vechio alato
Le memorie di lor disperse, e dome
English
Account
Of many excellent Paintings
written
For the most illustrious Monsignor Millini, Nuncio to Spain
At Madrid
By
His Brother Pietro Millini, from Rome
February 1st 1681
Chapter [the First]
That desire, which I had in my heart for so long,
To know from what hand emerged
The Paintings that our Forefathers left us
The obvious virtue of the illustrious men
Who described those works, though once neglected by fortune,
Has finally granted my wish;
Having well understood the one and the other,
The names of the Creators
Of the painted canvases are now known to us.
And so that in the future their memory shall not be
Lost and extinguished by the winged old man,
—As it was in the past—
Transcriptions Facsimile
Transcription
Relatione
di molte Pitture eccellenti
scritta
A Mons. Illmo Millini [sic] Nuntio di Spagna
A Madrid
da
Pietro Millini suo Fratello di Roma
Il p.o Febraro 1681Capitolo [primo]
Quel desio, ch’hebbi in sen per lunga etate
Di saper’ da qual man già furo espresse
Le Pitture da gl’Avi a noi lasciate
Adempire alla fin pur mi concise
D’huomini egregij la virtu palese,
Che le avvicinar, benche dal fato oppresse;
Onde si bene, e quello, e questo intese,
Che noto a noi degl’Inventori il nome
Delle tele dipinte hormai si rese,
E acciò non siano all’avvenir pur come
Il passato già fur dal vechio alato
Le memorie di lor disperse, e dome
English
Account
Of many excellent Paintings
written
For the most illustrious Monsignor Millini, Nuncio to Spain
At Madrid
By
His Brother Pietro Millini, from Rome
February 1st 1681
Chapter [the First]
That desire, which I had in my heart for so long,
To know from what hand emerged
The Paintings that our Forefathers left us
The obvious virtue of the illustrious men
Who described those works, though once neglected by fortune,
Has finally granted my wish;
Having well understood the one and the other,
The names of the Creators
Of the painted canvases are now known to us.
And so that in the future their memory shall not be
Lost and extinguished by the winged old man,
—As it was in the past—
—Nuria Rodríguez Ortega