The latin couplet translates: “Famous for her husband, a poet, and most famous for her face; so let this picture of mine add to her fame”. WMR's
The sentence inevitably recalls the concluding couplet of DGR's “
The text on the painting reads “vultu” for “forma”.
WMR must have found the text in one of DGR's notebooks. However, the manuscript is not now known.
First published by WMR in his edition of