Springtime in Garlasco

4. Italy is the native country of great poets who have also composed a lot of wonderful poems about spring.

5. Primavera brilla nell'aria Spring shines in the air Primavera d’intorno Spring around Brilla nell’aria, e per li campi esulta, shines in the air, and it exults in the fields, sì che a mirarla intenerisce il core. So heart’s moved watching it. Odi greggi belar, muggire armenti; you hear bleating flocks,lowing herds; gli altri augelli, contenti, a gara insieme, the other happy birds vie together per lo libero ciel fan mille giri, to do thousand circlings in the free sky, pur festeggiando il loro tempo migliore. Celebrating their best time. (Giacomo Leopardi) (Giacomo Leopardi)

7. Primavera Spring Da i verdi umidi margini From the green and damp brinks La violetta odora, the violet perfumes, il mandorlo s’infiora the almond tree decks it with flowers trillan gli uccelli a vol. Flying birds trill. (Giosué Carducci)

9. ITALIAN SPRINGTIME Spring arrives and nature awakes! Farmers start ploughing and manuring lands and kitchen-gardens to prepare them for the seeding. In our land called “ Lomellina ”, created by the Po river, we grow corn , rice and wheat .