Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.
Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.
Let's give the historians something to write about
Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.
Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.
And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.