1479

In the sanguine piazza
in Florence the city of the red lily
between the music and the people
Masino de Peretola, beautiful Julian
magnificent Lorenzo, old Cosimo
on the twenty-eighth of December of this year
in the presence of Bernardo di Bandino Baroncelli
as he hung,
arm in arm with his beloved Salai
Leonardo, born a bastard in Vinci
between the music and the subtle menace of the people
remembers the words he spoke yesterday at the palace:
“The Medicis have made me and undone me”.

Traslated from Spanish by Rowena Hill