III. From a high mountain from which the sea rises (looking at the sea from a high mountain)
From a high mountain from which the sea can be seen
I often look, your daughter Isabella,
if any wood smeared in that appears, (a piece of wood appears in the water)
what are you saying, padre, you give me news. (that gives me news of you, father)
But my adverse and ruthless star
it does not want any comfort to enter
in the sad cor, ma, of rebellious piety,
the warm hope in crying makes you change.
For I see neither oar nor sail in the sea (for I see neither oars nor sails on the sea)
(so deserted is the unhappy shore) (unhappy is the shore, that splits the waves and billows the wind)
that the waves cleave or that the wind swells it.
Contra Fortuna alor I spread a lawsuit (I throw a lawsuit against fortune and have the reviled side
and I hate the denigrated site, as the cause of my torment).
as the sole cause of my torment.
Im 3. Poem, Isabella talks about her father, Michael of Mora, who had to flee to France, after defeating the invading French army in the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples against the Spanish King Charles VI. supported. The father, which enabled Isabella to have a tutor, of them in literature (Petrarch) taught and who was also murdered by the brothers, never returned to Favale. Isabella had a view of the Ionian Sea and a river from Favale Castle, who moved below the castle, called Siri.