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Martha Marchina

(1600 - 1648)

 

Martha Marchina was a prolific poet and the daughter of a soap-maker from Naples.  She is a rare example of a working-class woman who had access to Latin education, as Latin was often restricted to nobility and religious circles.  

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Poem 1

Poem 2

de Maria Magdalena ad Christi sepulchrum plorante

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Magdalis adstabat vidui prope saxa sepulchri
Moerens, et vivis ora rigabat aquis.
Hic dolet amissum cordis Dominumque, Deumque,
Et vix præsentes aspicit Aligeros.
Ast ubi mæsta diu pressit sub pectore voces,
Hos tandem attonito protulit ore sonos,
Vos o dura meo mollescite Marmora fletu.
Quando ego sum pene facta dolore lapis.
Dicite (nam pietas vos dudum rupit) amanti,
Quis tulerit Domini pignora cara mei?
Hunc ego, seu languet milleno vulnere sectus,
Inter seu pendet tela, crucesque feram.
Exanimem seu terra tegit, seu vivit in astris,
Hunc ego sub terras, hunc ego in astra sequar.

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