Carpi

Allena a Lumezzane, tra l'altro ha appena finito la rifinitura, non l'ha finita per, per noi un po' in anticipo, perché domani gioca su Sky, Lumezzane-

Carpi.

Carpi-Lumezzane, sì.

E allora lo seguiamo.

Certo, dobbiamo seg-

Ndure è pronto, gioca già in Serie A da un paio d'anni.

Ehm, è, è una rinviata di giocatori che, che spero vengano valorizzati al massimo perché possono dare una mano anche alla nazionale maggiore nei prossimi anni.

Allora domani giocate, no? Eh, quindi sabato 14:30 Carpi-Lumezzane.

Messer Alfonso quite affronted let some contemptuous words escape him and exclaimed who are you then you who do not know what you are saying I replied listen for a moment and afterwards judge which of us knows best what he is saying.

Then turning to Messer Alberto, who was a man of great gravity and talent, I began, This is a copy from a little silver goblet of such and such weight, which I have made at such and such a time for that charlatan Maestro Jacopo, the surgeon from Carpi.

He came to Rome and spent six months there, during which he had bedaubed some scores of noblemen and unfortunate gentlefolk with his dirty salades, extracting many thousands of ducats from their pockets.

At that time I made for him this vase and one of a different pattern.

Malatesta,

lord of Carpi, wife first of Pierluigi Orsini, duke of Stemigliano, and subsequently of Guidalfonso II, duke of Urbana, predecessor of the great Duke Roberts II.

This woman's history and character remind one of that Bianca Capello, and at the same time of Lucrezia Borgia.

born in fifteen fifty six she was affianced at the age of twelve to a cousin a malatesta of the rimini family this family having greatly gone down in the world her engagement was broken and she was betrothed a year later to a member of the pica family and married to him by proxy at the age of fourteen but this match not satisfying her own or her father's ambition the marriage by proxy was upon some pretext declared null and the suit encouraged of the duke of stimigliano a great umbrian feudatory of the orsini family but the bridegroom giovan fresco picco refused to submit pleaded his case before the pope, and tried to carry off by force his bride, with whom he was madly in love, as the lady was most lovely and of the most cheerful and amiable manner, says an old anonymous chronicle.

The same posy is inscribed in the hollow of the bust, and thanks to it I have been able to identify the latter as Medea's portrait.

I often examine these tragic portraits, wondering what this face, which led so many men to their death, may have been like when it spoke or smiled.

What at the moment when Medea de Carpi fascinated her victims into love unto death.

Amour dur, dur amour.

Messer Alfonso, quite affronted, let some contemptuous words escape him and exclaimed, Who are you then, you who do not know what you are saying? I replied, Listen for a moment, and afterwards judge which of us knows best what he is saying.

Then turning to Messer Alberto, who was a man of great gravity and talent, I began, This is a copy from a little silver goblet of such and such weight, which I have made at such and such a time for that charlatan Maestro Jacopo, the surgeon from Carpi.

He came to Rome and spent six months there, during which he had bedaubed some scores of noblemen and unfortunate gentlefolk with his dirty salves, extracting many thousands of ducats from their pockets.

At that time, I made for him this vase and one of a different pattern.

Oh, the Roma guy too? Did he play at Roma? He played at Cruzeiro Milan...

Carpi, Napoli, Cagliari, Empoli, Perugia, Lecce.

This is who you're getting.

I'm telling you right now, this is who you're going to get.

Messer Alfonso, quite affronted, let some contemptuous words escape him, and exclaimed, Who are you, then, you who do not know what you are saying? I replied, Listen for a moment, and afterwards judge which of us knows best what he is saying.

Then turning to Messer Alberto, who was a man of great gravity and talent, I began, This is a copy from a little silver goblet of such and such weight, which I have made at such and such a time for that charlatan Maestro Jacopo, the surgeon from Carpi.

He came to Rome and spent six months there, during which he had bedaubed some scores of noblemen and unfortunate gentlefolk with his dirty salves, extracting many thousands of ducats from their pockets.

At that time I made for him this vase and one of a different pattern.