In the Piazza della Signoria Salutations Benvenuto, Never mind your braggadocio, It took your cranky genius To come up with Il Perseo. Two tons of godlike arrogance Italian sprezzatura: Apollo of the Renaissance, Bellissima figura. Peter Jeffrey Latin Lover I used to know some Latin once, but that was long ago, To Lalage sweetly smiling I recited amabo. Ut and the subjunctive simply nothing to me then, Absolutely ablatives flowed glibly from my pen. Arma virumque cano is now as far as I can get With Virgil, and Horatius Flaccus I couldn’t translate for a bet; But I’ve bought a…
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