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Now if worse came to worse
现在，如果事情变得越来越糟糕
And your husband died before you
你的丈夫比你先去世
All of the things that you had brought to the wedding in your dowry
那么所有你带到婚礼上作为嫁妆的东西
Could be returned to you
就重新归于你的了
And here we have another fresco by Ghirlandaio
这里的另外一幅壁画，是基尔兰达约的作品
Showing a notary recording the contents of the widow's chest
一名公证人正在清点一位寡妇衣柜里的东西
So they are counting up all the things that are her belongings
他们正在计算这位寡妇的财产
And legally marking them off
并且按照法律进行标记
Now the idea of a widow having a dowry and getting it back
寡妇可以取回自己的嫁妆这个理念
Brings us right back to Sacred and Profane love
这就将我们带回了《神圣和世俗之爱》
Because this marriage picture was really done to commemorate a marriage between a widow and a man in Venice
因为这幅结婚图事实上是为了纪念威尼斯的一名寡妇和一名男子的婚姻的
We happen to know who the patron was
我们恰巧知道这个男人是谁
His coat of arms is right there
那里有他的纹章
And his name was Niccolo Aurelio
他的名字叫尼可拉·奥利留
And he married Laura Bagarotto
他娶了罗拉·巴伽罗托
who came from a Paduan family
罗拉来自帕多瓦某个家族
The wedding actually took place...
婚礼实际举行是在......
so the consummation of the wedding took place on the 17th of May 1514
婚礼在1514年5月17日正式举行
And Marino Sanudo who was the diarist who recorded all the events
马里诺·萨努多是一位日记作者，他记下了当时
that were happening in Venice at the time
威尼斯城里发生的所有的大事
Said that it was a cause celebre
他说，这是一件出名的事件
That it was a great scandal
这桩婚礼的举办简直
That this wedding had taken place
就是一件大丑闻
And he said everyone is talking about it
他说，每个人都在讨论这件事
Well you might wonder why everyone is talking about this particular wedding
大家可能很好奇为什么每个人都在谈论这场特别的婚礼呢
Well it turns out that Laura Bagarotto's father Betruccio Bagarotto
原来，罗拉的父亲贝特鲁奇奥·巴伽罗托
was a very famous canon law professor at the University of Padua
是帕多瓦大学一名著名的教会法规教授
And he was one of really the elite of Padua who ruled the city
他是真正掌握着帕多瓦城的精英之一
And during the war of Cambrai with the League of Cambrai in 1509
在1509年的康布雷联盟战争期间
When momentarily the German Imperial forces had actually taken the city of Padua
当时德意志皇军，曾经短时间内占领了帕多瓦城
which before that time had been totally controlled and ruled by the Venetians
在这之前帕多瓦是完全由威尼斯人控制和统治的
They came in and certain Paduans were said to side with the enemy
德军进城之后，据说有几个帕多瓦人叛投了敌军
And Bagarotto and Laura's husband whose name was Borameo were two of those people
而巴伽罗托，罗拉当时的丈夫，波拉米奥就是这几个人中的其中两人
They were after the war which only lasted about six months
在这场只持续了六个月的战争之后
They were taken to Venice
他们被带到了威尼斯
They were put in jail
关进了监狱
They had a trial
进行了审讯
And they were declared traitors
并被冠以卖国贼的名号
And they were hung in front of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice
他们在威尼斯总督府门前
So the big square in front of the church of San Marco
即圣马可教堂前面的大广场被绞死
And Sanudo tells us once again that they had never seen so many people
而萨努多再次告诉我们从没见过这么多人
who came to witness the hanging of these people
来围观这些人的绞刑
So everybody would have known who she was
因此，每个人都知道罗拉是谁
