Inscriptions

Inscription #2598, S. Pancrazio 016 tomb of Elisabeth Southwell, Duchess of Northumbria a

Diplomatic Transcription

DIVÆ MEMORIÆ / QUID SPECIE? QUID GLORIÆ? QUID COLITUR QUICQUID / EXTOLLITUR SI QUID • IGITUR HOSPES ADVOLA / ECCE ELIZABETH SOVTUBEL DUX INCLITA NORTUMBRIÆ / ROBERTI ADMIRAGLI FILIA PATRIÆ DOMUS / NOVELLI REGLÆ NORTFOLCIÆ, NOTINGAMLÆQUE SPLENDOR / HIC • CUM ALMÆ PIETATIS ERGO DULCI / LIMINE RELICTO IN TUSCIA AD SERENIS: INVICTISSIMOQUE / MECENATE EX ANGLIA TRANSFU / GASSET IBIQUE NORTHUMB: WARVICENSUMQUE MAGNANIMO / ROBERTO, DUCI DUDELEO ISSICRATEA / HYMENE ILLUSTRIOR DILECTISSIMISQUE FILIIS ARCTA / AMANTIOR NON SIBI VIXISSET: DUM / VOLITATQUE EIUS UNDIQUE, VIRTUTE SUPER ÆTHERA FAMA, / O INFELIX VITA ÆTATIS XXXXVII / SALUTIS MDCXXXI INTERIIT FLORENTIA CINERES ANIMAQUE / CŒLUM SEMPER RETINET / ALMA FIDES RETULIT MENTEM AD CŒLESTIA ELATAM / CONDIDIT ÆTERNIS HUNC PIETASQUE LOCIS

Memorial S. Pancrazio 016 tomb of Elisabeth Southwell, Duchess of Northumbria
Taken From publication
Languages
  • Latin
Database ID 2598

Notes

  • [a] Transcribed by John Temple Leader, in his Life of Sir Robert Dudley, Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland. Florence: G. Barbèra, 1895, pp. 9-10 via HathiTrust.