WOW Mathias! Du bist ein Meister!
Thank you very much for the translation! This list is such a resource! Best Regards Göran ----- Original Message ----- From: ""Mathias Rösel"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lutelist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 3. november 2003 15:39 Subject: Re: Latin translation | To my most illustrious and venerable lord, the lord Christophorus Madrucius, | Cardinal and Prince of Trient and adminstrator of Brescia, my most dear lord | | It was an old farmers' custom, most illustrious Prince, to spend the first | fruits to those Deities who would take care for them, as was supposed, in order | to bear witness to the farmers' piety toward the Deities by such a deed. In | imitation of that fashion, I have wished to dedicate these little fruits of my | labours to you. For this, I have no other reason than to show obedience and | loyalty of an attendant, who has long been dependent on you. Furthermore, I have | reckoned it timely to offer to you something which, I thought, might please and | attract you. Such is the music whose art and students you have always favoured | and nourished, knowing that among other famous ornaments which pertain to the | enlightenment of a Prince, the study of music must not be despised. As regards | the days when it was highly esteemed in ancient Greece, particularly music of | stringed instruments with changing strikes of melody, it is known that | commandments regarding music were not less hallowed than those regarding | nutrition or personal hygiene. Plato held music necessary for general welfare. | Lycurgus, himself a very wise legislator, judged that military exercises cannot | be appropiately conducted without musical melodies. For these reasons I hope | that you will accept my merry play. Although it may be very light, under your | protection it will nevertheless seem more sober and honourable and will achieve | great influence from your fabulous reputation and will therefore perhaps be | proved and endorsed, being adorned and protected by your name against the stings | of critics. Furthermore it will be a proof of your education that these little | things will be measured not by its matial shape but by its intellectual | contents. For even to king Artaxerxes a bottle of dirty water, that a farmer had | brought him in deep devotion, was most pleasurable and welcome. - Farewell! | | Gintzler 1547. | | Hope that will help, Gřran. | | -- | Best wishes, | | Mathias | | Mathias Roesel, Grosze Annenstrasze 5, 28199 Bremen, Deutschland/ Germany, T/F | +49 - 421 - 165 49 97, Fax +49 1805 060 334 480 67, E-Mail: | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
