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A poem for my Mantova

CASTLE ISABELLA

Walls
strong and robust as well as deep trenches, where the water digs
its secret ways.
drawings of bricks and windows thin
sharp, smooth as mother of pearl.
Orme of horses on the trail.
The drawbridge lowered
reveals a world made of clay and grass brilliant.

try
famous artists to paint my rooms.
like that make them immortal.
I will not be satisfied until the day when the people passing
raise his head to see the towers. I
wonder and memory, history and lineage
.

But I know the life of my child.
E 'earth and water,
sticks and shells.
disappear before my castle
have the reverence of a wave of the lake.

There is regret in me,
put to test my future greatness.
I d'Este Gonzaga of birth and by marriage.