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Poem #45

Epitaphium Mercurini Gattinarae 3
written [1530-06-06 — 1530-06-16] first edition 1531

Early printed source materials:
1Epitaphia (In funere Reverendiss(imi) D(omini) Mercurini a Gattinaria aliud) p. B2r (in extenso)
2DANTISCUS 1764 (Aliud [Epitaphium Mercurini Gattinariae Caroli V Augusti supremi Cancellarii]) p. 146 (in extenso)

Prints:
1DANTISCUS 1938 (Nagrobek Mercurinowi) No. 16. 3, p. 182 (Polish translation, Jan Michał HARHALA)
2Dantisci Carmina (Epitaphium Mercurini Gattinarae 3) No. 36. 3, p. 160-161 (in extenso)

 

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Virtus, integritas, rerum sapientia multa,
Recti conscia mens, religionis amor
Hoc uno cum Mercurio sub marmore cunctis
Testantur, quanta vir probitate fuit.
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Omnibus ille bonis studuit prodesse, nocere
Nulli, cui potuit, ferre rogatus opem.
Carolus hunc caesar non frustra luxit ademptum;
Vix umquam poterit forsan habere parem.
Utile contempsit, solum delegit honestum;
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Sic vivens nullas accumulavit opes.
Sed fidei gazas post se cum laude reliquit
Et pro terrenis possidet astra bonis.