...this is the second folio - rougher than the previous one,
it seems, but it's some hard to work on a 400 years old vellum...
"THE DAY WHEN YOU KEEP LOVING ME
THERE'LL BE NOTHING BUT HARMONY"
(gardel/le pera, "el día que me quieras", tango, 1922)
- VELLUM: irregular, ca.cms 08.07 x 09.09, last quarter of XVI century;
- GILDING: 23.1/3 kt burnished gold leaf on gesso (armenian bole - black);
- COLOURS: ultramarine blue, lead white, carmine red, naples yellow;
- INK: "ferro/gallico" (olive "nerofumo");
- QUILLS: swan, medium and minor left "rowers";
- GRAPHIA: "rotunda secunda", approximately end XIII century;
- LETTRINE: "capitalis longobarda".
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June 2016
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el día que...
thanks for coming, diev...and what a nice comment! dear kamome, can you tell me a few words about my first attempt to translate a haiku in Russian into Italian? on the right side there you can read author's long version in English (translated in the order of a word by word), my freelance version "attempts to remeber" in English, and a version in French by apelcinova. ciao, diev...yes, I understand very well the basic idea |