Italian–English parallel text

Seneca il romano

Seneca the Roman

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Il ragazzo dalla Spagna

The Boy from Spain

Lucio Anneo Seneca è nato a Cordova, una città nel sud della Spagna, pochi anni prima della nascita di Cristo. Suo padre era un famoso maestro di retorica e la famiglia era ricca e rispettata. Il ragazzo era magro e malaticcio, ma la sua mente era svelta.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca was born in Corduba, a city in the south of Spain, a few years before the birth of Christ. His father was a famous teacher of public speaking, and the family was rich and respected. The boy was thin and sickly, but his mind was quick.

Ha avuto i migliori maestri della città e amava così tanto studiare che ha quasi rovinato la sua salute con lo studio. Mangiava a malapena, dormiva male e leggeva tutta la notte. Suo padre si preoccupava e lo ha mandato in Egitto con suo zio, dove si è riposato vicino al mare. Per tutta la vita è stato magro e gli mancava il respiro, e per tutta la vita ha fatto funzionare la sua debolezza a suo favore: ha imparato a essere paziente e ad andare avanti quando gli altri si fermavano.

He had the best teachers in the city, and he loved learning so much that he almost ruined his health with it. He barely ate, slept badly and read all night. His father worried and sent him to Egypt with his uncle, where he rested by the sea. All his life he was thin and short of breath, and all his life he made his weakness work for him: he learned to be patient, and to keep going when others stopped.

Quando era piccolo, sua zia lo ha portato a Roma. Lì è cresciuto tra libri, avvocati e ambizione. Ha studiato due cose: come parlare bene e come vivere bene. La prima cosa lo ha reso famoso. La seconda gli ha richiesto tutta la vita.

When he was small, his aunt took him to Rome. There he grew up among books, lawyers and ambition. He studied two things: how to speak well, and how to live well. The first made him famous. The second took him his whole life.

Da giovane è diventato così malato che ha pensato di togliersi la vita. Suo padre lo ha pregato di non farlo. Seneca ha scritto più tardi: «L’amore della mia famiglia mi ha tenuto in vita, e da quel momento mi sono fidato della mia mente, e non della mia salute».

As a young man he became so ill that he thought about ending his own life. His father begged him not to. Seneca wrote later: “The love of my family kept me alive, and from that time I trusted my mind, and not my health.”

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