IVDICES - HISTORY 48 - 1412 The dire ambiguity of ‘12

1412   IUDICES - The dire ambiguity of ‘12 (History 48)

When in late March swallow Meteolinda presented herself accompanied on her side by the gentle Bifulcoino, Swift from Baggio, the Duke and the clergy, caught by insolvable doubt, couldn’t ever agree if Spring were late to come, or certainly had it begun, for days and weeks beat their brains on insomuch evidence of this or other reason than this, until when the wheat’s grain was blond and peaches indeed disburdened themselves with their sweet loads that such question would be postponed at last with maximum satisfaction of the common people and the countryside so lastily forsaken that in everlasting memory affixed here.
MCDXII

         1412   IUDICES - La ponderosa ambiguità del ‘12 (Storia 48)

Quando fu marzo inoltrato presentòssi la rondine Meteolinda a lato accompagnata da lo garbato Bifulcoino, rondone da Baggio, lo duca e lo clero, si colti punto da dubbio insolvibile, giappiù non possero concluder se la primavera tardasse a venir o che certamente si fusse cominciata, per giorni e semane scerverossesi prove si tanto di questa che di tal altra cagione, financochè lo grano fu biondo e li peschi sgravorno li lor pomi dolcissimi che la question alfin soprassidossi con maxima sodisfacione de lo volgo e del contado a lor stessi abandoniti che in memoria appuosero.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________          MCDXII

100x70cm (40X28")

acrylic and oil on canvas

A painting included in the series "SVA SPONTE" ("ON HIS OWN WILL"), previously on display at Spazio Arte Tolomeo - Via Ampère, 27 - Milan