Lorenzo Lotto, Italian
“Hey Look, Guys! I Made It Into ‘That Is Priceless!’ High Five!,” 1533-34
Oil on canvas
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Lorenzo Lotto, Italian
“Hey Look, Guys! I Made It Into ‘That Is Priceless!’ High Five!,” 1533-34
Oil on canvas
Info about this artist is pointed to by my comment at another blog entry.
/// Rich Girolamo, (serial sinner),
has dressed up for an alfresco dinner.
His young date is due later,
so he signals the waiter
to bring fine food and wines which will win her.
/// Tuscan blends from his own private winery,
like his gold chains and costly silk finery,
will no doubt have impressed
his naive female guest.
Solo now, by tonight he’ll be binary.
/// He’s determined to cheat on his mate,
but ought not seek young maidens to date.
There are women he might,
with ease, rent for the night
at a very affordable rate.
/// With his right hand he crumples a note
which his previous paramour wrote.
She begs him to explain
why he’s cold and brings pain
to the girl on whom he would once dote.
/// There are flowers and herbs on the table.
Crushed and mixed in the wine they enable
him to lead girls astray.
Once they’re drugged he will prey.
He’s unscrupulous, vile and unstable.
/// He grew careless. Girolamo’s spouse
learned her husband’s a cheat and a louse.
So before his next date
men she hired lay in wait
to black both his eyes leaving their house.
/// The creep’s eyes were so swollen and bruised
that when one glass of wine he’d “infused,”
he became so confused
about which glass he’d used,
that ‘twas he who while drugged was abused.
/// When Girolamo came to at dawn,
from the waist down his clothing was gone.
His wife had arranged
for his date to be changed
for a cross-dressing pervert named Sean.