Italian with the poets II
Here’s an easy passage from Petrarch, 232, lines 12-14. Before these lines, Petrarch has given exemplars of damage and destruction wrought in individuals too heedless in their anger: Alexander, Tydeus, Sulla, Valentinianus, and Ajax.
Ira è breve furore; et chi nol frena,
è furor lungo che ‘l suo possessore
spesso a vergogna et talor mena a morte.
Vocabulary:
- ira anger
- furor(e) madness
- nol = non la [ira]
- frenare to restrain
- spesso often
- vergogna shame
- talor(a) sometimes
- menare to lead
- morte death
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