[New-Poetry] ninna nanna

[Anny Ballardini]

This is a beautiful little poem, do you have some other ones? 

Anselmo is riding through mountains and valleys, he asks his vassals where the East is. Nobody knows - which means there is no East. In the meantime the war ended, but he, stomach on earth, rides and does not know. And he crosses mountains and valleys and asks his vassals where the East is.

I just corrected a couple of things:

Anselmo cavalca
Per monti e per valli,
Chiedendo ai vassalli,
L'Oriente dov'è?

Nessuno l'ha visto
Nessuno (ne) sa niente             (---optional)
E allora l'Oriente
Vuol dir che non c'è.

Intanto la guerra
Finita è di già,
Ma lui ventre a terra
Galoppa e non sa.

E valica monti
E valica valli
Chiedendo ai vassalli
L'Oriente dov'è?
  From: TheOldMole 
  Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:04 AM


  It goes like this. I pretty much know the English translation, but there are still places where my phonetic Italian may be screwed up, even though all Italian is phonetic.

  It was taught to me by an Italian governess. She wasn't exactly a governess, she was a young Italian woman whom my parents wanted to help out by bringing her over to the US, so they told immigration she was the children's governess. Anyway, here it is.

  Anselmo cavalca
  Per monti e per valli,
  Chiedendo ai vassali,
  L'Oriente dove?

  Nessuno l'ai visto
  Nessuno ne sa niente
  E allora l'Oriente
  Vol dir che non ce.

  In tanto la guerra
  Finito e di gia,
  Ma lui ventre a terra
  Gallopa e non sa.

  E valica monti
  E valica valli
  Chiedendo ai vassali
  L'Oriente dove?


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Anny Ballardini 
    To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views 
    Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 5:48 PM
    Subject: [New-Poetry] ninna nanna


    Which nursery rhyme is it? I think most children know this lullaby:
    http://www.filastrocche.it/nostalgici/ninne/ninna7.htm
    the first version.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: TheOldMole 
      To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
      Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 11:28 PM
      Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] That'll pay for quite a few pints: £60,000 Dylan award shortlist


      Anny -- have I asked you this before? I have an entire nursery rhyme in Italian, in my memory, virtually the only thing I remember from my year in Italy when I was 9. I'm wondering if it's something that Italian children know, or whether I am the only person in the world who remembers it.
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