CENTURIA III · QUATRAIN LXXIV
The Quarreling Cities
Naples, Florence, Favence & Imole,
Seront en termes de telle fascherie:
Que pour complire aux malheureux de Nolle,
Plainct d'avoir faict a son chef moquerie.
Naples, Florence, Faenza and Imola
will be on terms of such rancor
that to please the unhappy ones of Nola
they will lament having mocked their chief.
THE MASTER SAYS…
This quatrain relates to the time when the Italian states united into one country. Before that they were city-states that became a single kingdom of Italy. This happened in the 1800s.