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"If they but knew!"
"他們不知"
"They're steeped in luck, country people"
"安常履順的農人們"
"Far removed from the grinds of war"
"何為戰爭的生靈涂炭"
"Where earth that just showers them"
"當想要的一切"
"With all they could ever ask for"
"都被大地直接饋贈"
"What they have is the quiet life -"
"安閑自在"
"Carefree, no deceit, wealth untold -"
"無憂 無誑 堆金積玉"
"Their ease among the cornucopia."
"以及豐饒之上的安逸"
Virgil is looking hard in only the way
維吉爾站在鄉下人的角度
that only a real countryman can.
努力端詳始末
He's sort of poking the pigs and checking the flocks and herds.
他時而戳戳豬 時而安撫牛羊
There is a wonderful line in The Georgics
在《農事詩》里有這樣絕妙的一段
when it's coming on to rain,
關于雨 他描述了這樣的場景
and he talks about a heifer looking suspiciously at the sky,
小母牛猜疑地望向天空
working his nose to sniff the wind.
動動鼻子嗅著風的氣息
You really feel the flavours and the sounds
令你仿佛對淳樸鄉間生活的
and the perfumes of rustic life here.
酸甜苦辣 悲歡離合感同身受
Virgil is staring at the soar of a lark and listening
維吉爾全神貫注地注視著穿梭的云雀
to the croak of frogs down in the mud.
細細聆聽泥濘處傳來的蛙鳴
For Italian nobles of the 16th century who'd read their Virgil,
對十六世紀讀過維吉爾詩作的意大利貴族來說
that vision of a balanced life in the countryside proved irresistible.
那樣和諧安定的鄉間生活使他們無法抗拒
They took their identity as gentlemen farmers seriously,
他們兢兢業業地對待自己鄉紳的身份
and the ground floor of their villas was where carts and scythes
將運貨馬車和長把鐮刀存放在別墅的第一層
and even some animals were kept.
甚至一些動物也是
But the rest of the villa was for a different kind of rustication -the play of intellect.
但別墅余下的部分有著完全不同的風格,是智慧上演的地方
But that didn't always preclude a sense of humour.
但這并沒有使之變得索然無趣
This is the Villa Barbaro,
這就是巴巴羅別墅
built around the 1560s in the Veneto,
1560年前后建于威尼斯周遭的鄉下
the countryside surrounding Venice.
一個叫威尼托的地方
The man responsible for this gem was Daniele Barbaro,
達尼埃萊.巴爾巴羅是這珍寶般建筑的締造者
a wealthy cleric in the unstrenuous Venetian style,
一個安逸的威尼斯式富有的牧師
but also the epitome of a Renaissance man,
但他幾乎在所有領域都有涉獵
learned in pretty much everything.
是文藝復興期間學識豐富的典范
To create this little realm of a well-ordered Arcadia,
為了創造這一小片世外桃源
Daniele turned to his friend, the architect Andrea Palladio,
達尼埃萊求助于建筑師朋友安德烈亞.帕拉第奧
who designed the villa so that its horizontal lines
請他幫助設計了這棟別墅 以使其水平線條
would rhyme with the lay of the land.
與當地地勢和諧呼應
