From: 'guy, I Wish..' And 'if I Was Fire' Poem by Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello

DANTE ALIGHIERIGuy, I wish you and Lapo and I
Stood in astonishment
And were put in a vessel
Which went to sea
With the wind
As you and I like [..].

CECCO ANGIOLIERI[..] If I was emperor, I sure would behave in this way;
I'd beheaded everybody in a circle [..].
If I was death, I'd go to my father;
If I was life, I wouldn't be with him:
I'd do the same with my mother.
If I was Cecco as I am and was
I'd enjoy the young and pretty women
I'd give somebody else
The old and lame ones.

DANTE ALIGHIERI[..] And then with us let the good enchanter put
Mona Vanna and then Mona Lagia
With the girl number thirty of the Florentine catalog;
And here we'll manage love forever,
And every woman will be happy,
As well as we'll be, I think.
(Collected and translated from Italian by Paolo G. Mazzarello)