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a Rose for you...

«Rosa fresca aulentis[s]ima ch’apari inver’ la state,
le donne ti disiano, pulzell’ e maritate:
tràgemi d’este focora, se t’este a bolontate;
  per te non ajo abento notte e dia,5
  penzando pur di voi, madonna mia».

«Se di meve trabàgliti, follia lo ti fa fare.
Lo mar potresti arompere, a venti asemenare,
l’abere d’esto secolo tut[t]o quanto asembrare:
  avere me non pòteri a esto monno;10
  avanti li cavelli m’aritonno».


«Se li cavelli artón[n]iti, avanti foss’io morto,
ca’n is[s]i [sí] mi pèrdera lo solacc[i]o e ’l diporto.
Quando ci passo e véjoti, rosa fresca de l’orto,
  bono conforto dónimi tut[t]ore:15
  poniamo che s’ajúnga il nostro amore».
Cielo d'Alcamo
at the court of Frederick II in the XIIIth Sicily


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Missing from my blog for a couple of months, 
the worst in my life...

I start again from this Rose for you....
hoping that every single petal I put on your tomb
will preserve  every memory of our time spent together...

I have a lot to learn from you
from your pleasant smile
from your sweet eyes
from your generous heart
from your love for me..

these two terrible months 
we learnt  a great lesson of  LOVE
from you

I feel lucky 
to have been your sister 
till your latest breath....









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