Leo is still terribly in love. “I have a heart broken,” he told me last night. The cause of this is still Eloise who has now apparently fallen in love with a boy with dark hair – can you imagine?
“It’s not about how cute you are mummy,” he told me angrily last night. “It’s about how clever you are. And he is really really stupid.”
My father (pictured above with the children in Florence) sent the following advice to him, in Italian of course, translated for the blog by my mother.
Dear Leonardo,
I write to you in Italian and your mother despite speaking a miserable Italian with double errors will translate.
In our world, women are as numerous as the leaves on the trees and the arenas of the sea. If you ask too much from one of them, you show little appreciation to all the others. Always remember this saying by Don Giovanni: if you are faithful to one woman, you are unfaithful to all the others.
You need to be wise and grateful. It is natural to fall in love, but you must never forget that if you show it too much, it is not like with your mother, for whom there is only you. Eloisa has a lot of choice: and she is having a lot of fun seeing how you are in her hands, when you cry, to her, it is like music.
Only two things in life deserve absolute fidelity: la Ferrari and il parmigiano. I ask you to think and to always consult your mother.
Abbracci Benedetto
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2010
il parmigiano…the cheese?
Yes, that’s right Hx
Don Benedetto,
Se siete stati quarant’ anni più giovani, vorrei sposare vi
Patricia
Hi Patricia
This is the response from my father, I am guessing you speak Italian? If not I will translate…
Hx
Cara Patricia, Helena ti traduce questa lettera. Fra quallche giorno, il 21 di Marzo sarà San Benedetto ed entra la primavera. Il poeta italiano Quasimodo scrive
Oggi ventuno di marzo, entra
l’ariete nell’equinozio e picchia
con la sua testa maschia
contro alberi e rocce.
Dunque tu mi hai fatto i più graditi auguri per l’onomastico. I compleanni, non li voglio più sapere perchè sono troppi. Che vadano pure per conto loro, non li conto, ma li vivo.
Mia cara, sarebbe troppo chiederti una fotografia?
La tua gentile letterina mi ha toccato nella vanità che è il mio punto debole. Ho avuto una lunga storia d’amore con un’altra Patricia, e se vuoi te la racconterò, con discrezione salvando i fatti personali. Grazie per gli auguri, e sono il tuo mancato (per poco, quaranta anni) marito,
Benedetto.
“la vanità che è il mio punto debole” – with all due respect to your adorable father, Helena, there speaks un proprio italiano on behalf of himself and all others! What a charming post.
Un vero gentiluomo… Purtroppo ben pochi sono sinistra!
Helena, feel free to show Don Benedetto my Facebook photos. And please thank him for the most charming letter I’ve received in my “short” life
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