Inscriptions

Inscription #1830, S. Spirito 364 Picchena-Rossini 1622

Diplomatic Transcription

Bene tibi sit Alexandra Rossinia, cum qua mariti Amor, Coniugi honor, specimen pietatis, suavitas morum vixere heu, et abiere. Curtius Pichena Sen. Florentinus Magni Ducis Etrurie a Secretis Primarius, et a Consiliis, libellorumque supplicum obsignator, Uxori suavissime Anno etatis due de trigesimo Coniugii nono, iniquissimii sibi fatis perniciter arrepte, Monum. et sibi, et Poosteris pos. Anno Sal. MDCXXII

It would be well for you Alessandra Rossini, with whom love of husband, honor of marriage, model of piety, sweetness of manners to have lived, oh! and to have departed. Curzio Picchena, Florentine Senator, first secretary and adviser of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, chancellor of the pleas, for his most sweet wife, snatched by the most unjust fates in the thirty-second year of her age, the ninth of her marriage, placed this monument for her and for himself and for future generations in the year of salvation 1622.