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Now if worse came to worse
現(xiàn)在，如果事情變得越來越糟糕
And your husband died before you
你的丈夫比你先去世
All of the things that you had brought to the wedding in your dowry
那么所有你帶到婚禮上作為嫁妝的東西
Could be returned to you
就重新歸于你的了
And here we have another fresco by Ghirlandaio
這里的另外一幅壁畫，是基爾蘭達(dá)約的作品
Showing a notary recording the contents of the widow's chest
一名公證人正在清點一位寡婦衣柜里的東西
So they are counting up all the things that are her belongings
他們正在計算這位寡婦的財產(chǎn)
And legally marking them off
并且按照法律進(jìn)行標(biāo)記
Now the idea of a widow having a dowry and getting it back
寡婦可以取回自己的嫁妝這個理念
Brings us right back to Sacred and Profane love
這就將我們帶回了《神圣和世俗之愛》
Because this marriage picture was really done to commemorate a marriage between a widow and a man in Venice
因為這幅結(jié)婚圖事實上是為了紀(jì)念威尼斯的一名寡婦和一名男子的婚姻的
We happen to know who the patron was
我們恰巧知道這個男人是誰
His coat of arms is right there
那里有他的紋章
And his name was Niccolo Aurelio
他的名字叫尼可拉·奧利留
And he married Laura Bagarotto
他娶了羅拉·巴伽羅托
who came from a Paduan family
羅拉來自帕多瓦某個家族
The wedding actually took place...
婚禮實際舉行是在......
so the consummation of the wedding took place on the 17th of May 1514
婚禮在1514年5月17日正式舉行
And Marino Sanudo who was the diarist who recorded all the events
馬里諾·薩努多是一位日記作者，他記下了當(dāng)時
that were happening in Venice at the time
威尼斯城里發(fā)生的所有的大事
Said that it was a cause celebre
他說，這是一件出名的事件
That it was a great scandal
這樁婚禮的舉辦簡直
That this wedding had taken place
就是一件大丑聞
And he said everyone is talking about it
他說，每個人都在討論這件事
Well you might wonder why everyone is talking about this particular wedding
大家可能很好奇為什么每個人都在談?wù)撨@場特別的婚禮呢
Well it turns out that Laura Bagarotto's father Betruccio Bagarotto
原來，羅拉的父親貝特魯奇奧·巴伽羅托
was a very famous canon law professor at the University of Padua
是帕多瓦大學(xué)一名著名的教會法規(guī)教授
And he was one of really the elite of Padua who ruled the city
他是真正掌握著帕多瓦城的精英之一
And during the war of Cambrai with the League of Cambrai in 1509
在1509年的康布雷聯(lián)盟戰(zhàn)爭期間
When momentarily the German Imperial forces had actually taken the city of Padua
當(dāng)時德意志皇軍，曾經(jīng)短時間內(nèi)占領(lǐng)了帕多瓦城
which before that time had been totally controlled and ruled by the Venetians
在這之前帕多瓦是完全由威尼斯人控制和統(tǒng)治的
They came in and certain Paduans were said to side with the enemy
德軍進(jìn)城之后，據(jù)說有幾個帕多瓦人叛投了敵軍
And Bagarotto and Laura's husband whose name was Borameo were two of those people
而巴伽羅托，羅拉當(dāng)時的丈夫，波拉米奧就是這幾個人中的其中兩人
They were after the war which only lasted about six months
在這場只持續(xù)了六個月的戰(zhàn)爭之后
They were taken to Venice
他們被帶到了威尼斯
They were put in jail
關(guān)進(jìn)了監(jiān)獄
They had a trial
進(jìn)行了審訊
And they were declared traitors
并被冠以賣國賊的名號
And they were hung in front of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice
他們在威尼斯總督府門前
So the big square in front of the church of San Marco
即圣馬可教堂前面的大廣場被絞死
And Sanudo tells us once again that they had never seen so many people
而薩努多再次告訴我們從沒見過這么多人
who came to witness the hanging of these people
來圍觀這些人的絞刑
So everybody would have known who she was
因此，每個人都知道羅拉是誰
