Transcript and Translation: COMPLICAZIONE DOLENTE PER LA DISTRUZIONE DI MESSINA

TRANSCRIPT:

COMPLICAZIONE DOLENTE PER LA DISTRUZIONE DI MESSINA

1.
Ite tristu giornale pubblicadu
A dannu de s'Italia meschina
Pro sa distruzione de Messina
Su noighento e otto beni notadu
Su vint'ott'e natale est capitadu
A sas chimbe manzanu po ruina
Messina chi ti merita pianta
Distrutta de disastru tott'a canta

2.
De disastru s'agatat distruida
De persone e sienda bene istante
Chentu sessanta mizas abitante
Lada in pagos momento disfinida
Chi fin duas potenzias unidas
Terremoto maremotto fuliante
Assistante chi Deus l'ha mandadu
Pagh'e nudda persone si è salvada

3.
Pagu sind'e salvadu de persone
Chi fin tottu durmidas in riposu
A cuddu maremottu furiosu
Si sun apidos in undazione
Fi d'ordinada sa conclusione
Mandada da e Deus gloriosu
Sene in repome bene aslade
Si su n'apidos tottus sutterrados

4.
Sutterrados de domos e palatos
E s'aba asubra po lo suffocare
Pare chi sia buglia a lu contare
Da e lontano cussos disacatos
Ma se sera presente a cussos fattos
A pianghe no tiad'a bastare
Cuddu de no salvare un'alimentu
Esse distruttor in uno momentu

5.
Bidende a su momentu chi si accaba
Fi gramorosa disperazione
Sa zittade coperta si è de aba
Pro esse giusta sa distruzione
Podia faghe treme unu leone
Bidende cuddas operas infraba
De aba doghi metrus in altura
Supra a sas plus alta copeltura

6.
Supra sas copelturas sa masetta
Po vinti batto s'oras ses firmada
Fin'aca sa zittad'e profundada
Chi fudi scritta sa sua prenetta
Sa divina potenzia inchietta
Fidi e pro cussu l'ha sintenziada
Chi forsi fi mancara de cuscienzia
A segundu sos peccados penetenzia

7.
Segundu sos peccaus comitidos
Deu no sas sa penas adatados
Sos pagos persones chi si sun salvados
Nudos istrupiad'è affiigidos
Oe sun de limusina nutridos
Chi fini in domu sua assiendados
Appoggiado in campagnia in d’una tenda
Nende ue sunu sal mias siendas

8.
Nende ue sunu sal mias persones
Fizzos frades e sorre cun isposa
Chi imprime veramente impressione
Cuddu piantu a boghe gramorose
Nende fricias crudele strepitosa
Chi mi parti su cosa a pulzione
Reione intendese a sattera ia
Nende ue ser babbo e mamma mia

9.
Giammende mamma mia ue ses dada
Beni chi sos de famini morzende
Sa trista boghe mia non l'intende
Ello in'ue as'a esse sutterada
Pianghende a dognora a s'ispramada
Cun pibiu aggiutoriu giammende
Intende narre e poita so campadu
Pro biviri a su solu e castigadu

10.
Pro bivi cun dolore e angostia
Chena tennede a chie mi aggiuare
Già poto narre a sa sienda mia
Lompo po minde poder consolade
Mancu su' filu potu assimizzare
Ue fi cuddu abbittu chi tenia
Sas domos mia e posizione
Peldida apo siendas e persones

11.
Peldida apu in su mundu dogna accunostu
Pro me no più groria s'agata
Custas sis che sentenzia isatta
S'ira chi Ders a noi. si ha prepostu
No è su messinesu solu mortu
Ch'è tottu sa Calabria disfatta
Si tratta de sas Calabrias intera
No ha lassadu una idda sinzere

12.
Non ha lassau unu palatu impè
Tott'e distruttu chi par'e un'ispantu
Candu a luide bandei su Re
Mirende s'isfinia de piantu
Bidende cuddu dannu tottu cantu
Zente guastas e fora de sè
Candu su Re cumandada battide
Alimentu e sos nudos a bistide

13.
Su Re a tottu ha mandadu tributu
E ponne zente a su scavamentu
Mancu si pode iscride in assentu
De cussu logu su dannu chi aggiutu
De su gasu su fogu si est allutu
Po cunsumare tottu a comprimentu
E cussu este esperimentu opera fatta
Cando namos chi Deus non si agata

14.
Chi naras peccadores miserinu
Sos chi sun de ideas miscredente
E como abbei crese in Dues trinu
Ch'este in chelu in terra onnipotenti
Alla bides sas operas presente?
A lu lassas su barbaru camminu?
O miserinu peccadorei ngratu
Como abbi crese in Deus chi s'ha fattu

15.
Abbei crese in su divinu Deus
Su chi ha formadu Chelu terra e mundu
Cuddu chi s'ha dottadu in totu abbundu
De talentu iscienzia e impreu
Su chi no da gastiga e recreu
E noi lo rezimus in secundu
Mundu corro de s'ammassonia
Sendedi a beffe sa sacra cresia

16.
E tue cresiasticu imprudente
Presenta giustas sa legges umanas
No fetta bide operas mezzanas
Mustrende viziosu e indezente
Ca proidedere a tie differente
Tottu s'ormessiones sunu vanas
E sa zirgana de vizios mondano
Stadebos secularis e no profanus

17.
Pro vinis custu no es criticare
Sos faeddos chi nado in dipendenzia
Ch'è pro dare a dognunu un'avvertenzia
Ca Deu lo devimus rispettade
E si ch'edimus a nos'aggiudare
Cunfidamu cun sa sua onnipotenzia
E si bona cossienzia tenimus
Deus amad'a tottus già l'eschimus

Proprietà Letteraria
SALVATORE MONTESI
Cagliari, Tip. Industriale

TRANSLATION:


Translated by Andrea Mura

1
What a sad newspaper they published
To the detriment of poor Italy
For the destruction of Messina
The nine hundred and eight is noticed
The twenty-eighth of December happened
At 5 o'clock in the morning for ruin
Messina who deserves your tears
Destroyed by disaster all around

2
From the disaster it was destroyed
Of well-to-do people
One hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants
In a short time they were killed
For the united powers
That were the earthquake and the tidal wave
Just as God sent him
Almost no one was saved

3
Few people have been saved
When everyone was sleeping
Because of that raging tidal wave
There have been floods
The end was ordered
From the gloomy God
Without saving anything
They were all buried

4
Buried by houses and palaces
And the water over them smothered
It seems a joke to tell
From so far away
But if you had been present at those events
It would not have been enough to cry
Not saving any food
Everything was destroyed in a moment.

5
Seeing the moment when everything ends
The call for help was desperate
The city is covered with water
To be just the destruction
He could make a lion tremble
Seeing those works («infraba» NOT FOUND)
Waves 12 metres high
On the highest roofs

6
On the roofs the mass
For twenty-four hours it stopped
Until the city is sunk
For his fate was written
The divine power was angry
And for this he gave his sentence
Who perhaps lacked consciousness
According to the sins he gave penance

7
According to the sins committed
The penalties are adapted
The few people who were saved
Naked, shuddered and sorrowful
Today they are nourished by alms
Even those who came home
Now they live in a tent in the country
asking where are my riches

8
Asking where are my people
Children brothers and sisters with the bride
That really makes an impression
That weeping I hear moaning voices
Asking for cruel and noisy arrows
(«Who tells me what to drive
Reione intendese a sattera ia" NOT FOUND)
Asking where are my father and mother

9
Where have you gone?
Come, I’m starving
My sad voice does not hear
Who knows where you are buried
Crying at all hours for the fright
Complaining and calling for help
You hear why I saved myself
To live alone and chastened

10
To live in pain and anguish
With no one to help me
I can already tell my wealth
I come to console myself
Not even to the son can I resemble
Where is that dress I had
And where is my home
I have lost wealth and people

11
I have lost all knowledge in the world
For me there is no more glory
This is the exact sentence
The wrath of God that has set us
He’s not the only Messinian who died
Since the whole of Calabria is also destroyed
The whole of Calabria
Not a single country has been spared

12
Did not leave a palace standing
Everything is destroyed and leaves you stunned
When the King went to see him
Seeing the endless cries
Seeing all that damage
People hurt and out of it
When the King commands to bring
Food and clothing to those who are naked

13
The King has sent aid to all
And put people to dig
You can’t even write
What damage that place had
The fire is lit by gas
Consuming everything
And this experiment (event) is realized
When we say that God is not found

14
If you express poor sinner
Those who are unbelieving ideas
Now you must believe in God who is one and triune
Who is almighty in heaven and on earth
Do you see now the works present?
Do you leave the barbarian way?
Oh poor ungrateful sinner
Now you must believe in God who created us

15
You must believe in the divine God
He who formed heaven, earth and the world
He who gave us so much abundance
Talent, science and work
What does not punish is pleasure
And we receive it immediately
World, horn ("s'ammassonia" NOT FOUND)
Mocking the holy church

16
And you foolish ecclesiastic
Respect the right human laws
Do not show unfinished works
Showing indecent vices
Which are forbidden to you
All omissions are vain
And all worldly vices
Be secular and not profane

17
In the end this is not a criticism
The words I speak
They serve to give a warning to each
That we must respect God
And we must help ourselves
We trust in his omnipotence
And if we have a good conscience
God loves us all and we know it

Literary Property
SALVATORE MONTESI
Cagliari, Tip. Industrial