| Ciclone in Toscana
Ernesto Ragazzoni
… e lieve lieve cade la neve sull’alta pieve di Pontassieve e il tetto breve che ne riceve piú che non deve si fa piú greve sempre piú greve ahi troppo greve e cade in breve non piú la neve sovra la pieve sibben la pieve sovra la neve che cade lieve sull’alta pieve di Pontassieve e il tetto breve che ne riceve piú che non deve si fa piú greve sempre piú greve ahi troppo greve e cade in breve non piú la neve sovra la pieve sibben la pieve sovra la neve che cade lieve sull’alta pieve di Pontassieve e il tetto breve. |
Cyclone in Tuscany
Ernesto Ragazzoni
…lightly so lightly fell the snow nightly on the high belfry in Pontassieve and there the roof be anything but free more than it should be it becomes heavy ever more heavy oh much too heavy down it fell briefly not the snow nightly on the high belfry but the high belfry on the snow fell free snow that fell lightly on the high belfry in Pontassieve and there the roof be anything but free more than it should be it becomes heavy ever more heavy oh much too heavy down it fell briefly not the snow nightly on the high belfry but the high belfry on the snow fell free snow that fell lightly on the high belfry in Pontassieve and there the roof be.
Translation ©Matilda Colarossi
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A free spirit, Ernesto Ragazzoni (1870-1920) was a journalist, poet, writer and humorist. He was intelligent and prophetic, anti-conformist and multifaceted, an Anglicist and polyglot, an theosophist and Nietzschean, an anarcho-socialist and alcoholic, who, through irony, made fun of everything, and most of all himself, using a wit that often reveals a bitter, tormented streak.
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