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Poem #103

Epitaphium Alfonsi Valdesii 1
written 1532-10-06 — 1536-08-13 first edition 2006

Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 16th-century, OÖLA, family archive Starhemberg, MS 131, f. 154v

Prints:
1SKOLIMOWSKA 2006 Epitaph p. 87-88 (in extenso)
2CEID 2/3 p. 67 (in extenso)

 

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Valdesius iacet hic Alphonsus, nobile sidus
Hispanum, a patria tam regione procul.
Carolus <huic> quintus caesar credebat in aula
Consilii arcanas resque schedasque sui.
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Carior huic quamvis esset, tamen aequi et honesti
Officiique fuit tempus ad omne memor.
Artibus ornatusque bonis, virtutis ad arcem
Iam prope non segni coeperat ire gradu,
At pestis iuvenem rapuit, cum caesar ab ista
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In turpem Turcas compulit urbe fugam.
Serius ignavos quam claris usibus aptos
Nullius expensa mors ratione vocat.