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VITTORIA COLONNA, on the death of her hushand, the Marchese di Pescara, retired to her castle at Ischia (Inarime), and there wrote the Ode upon his death, which gained her the title of Divine.
Once more, once more, Inarime, / I see thy purple hills! -- once more / I hear the billows of the bay / Wash the white pebbles on thy shore.