Stanza 2

Boccaccio:

Già è gran tempo, fu tra' marchesi di Sanluzzo il maggior della casa un giovane chiamato Gualtieri,

There was in olden days a certain Marquis of Saluzzo, Gualtieri by name, a young man, but head of the house,


Petrarch:

Inter cetera, ad radicem Vesulli, terra Salutiarum vicis et castellis satis frequens, marchionum arbitrio nobilium quorundam regitur virorum, quorum unus primusque omnium et maximus fuisse traditur Valterius quidam, ad quem familie ac terrarum omnium regimen pertineret;

Among others, at the very foot of Mount Viso, is the land of Saluzzo, thick with villages and castles. It is ruled over by noble marquises, the first and greatest of whom, according to tradition, was a certain Walter, to whom the direction of his own estates and of all the land pertained.


Chaucer:

A markys whilom lord was of that lond,
As were his worthy eldres hym bifore,
And obeisant and redy to his hond
Were alle his liges, bothe lasse and moore.
Thus in delit he lyveth, and hath doon yoore,
Biloved and drad thurgh favour of Fortune,
Bothe of his lordes and of his commune.

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