Saturday, December 09, 2023
The Duty to Help One's Own Kind
Archipoeta, Carmina III.13-14 (tr. Fleur Adcock):
See Peter Godman, "Transmontani. Frederick Barbarossa, Rainald of Dassel, and Cultural Identity in the German Empire," Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 132.2 (2010) 200-229 (at 227).
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With your accustomed care for duty, cherish us who are poor.Addressed to Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop-Elect of Cologne and Frederick Barbarossa's Arch-Chancellor of Italy. Transmontane = Transalpine.
As a Tramontane, you should help me; I'm Tramontane too.
Pauperie plenos solita pietate fove nos
Et Transmontanos, vir Transmontane, iuva nos!
See Peter Godman, "Transmontani. Frederick Barbarossa, Rainald of Dassel, and Cultural Identity in the German Empire," Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 132.2 (2010) 200-229 (at 227).
