After 500 years of “sleep” in Latin didactic poem “De hortorum culture” of the poet Joseph Milio Voltolina Salò (1536-1580), Tullio Iron ten years goes by “translating” in-painted sculptures of the protagonists of the work the Voltolina. The subject of the verse is placed in the places dear to the author. In fact, his family had a garden and a farm near the mill of Tavine, on the lake shore in the Gulf of Salo ‘. Here the poet contemplates the nymph Isis (or Isella), graceful figurafemminile in which he portrays the beloved maiden, Isella Socia.
The Voltolina in the third book of his poem presents, at the shore of the lake, sources once inhabited by glaucous Napee (nymphs of the valleys in Greek mythology). Among the many nymphs that from the time antichiabitano these sources, the poet grew evidenziache “In renown, and honor of the Dryads, / Hon fountains, the Charming / Tavine glauca footer, the green foliage, / silver or the gold chest, these sources held, / and every other Ninfa surpassed in beauty. / it happened one day, that lifting the head / Dall’onda out Benaco, in her gaze / she stared, while asciugavasi hair / spread on the back, and will sit not far / From gush her ​​paternal source. ”
Bongianni Grattarolo in his “History of the Riviera di Salo ‘” (1599) pauses to consider the name of Aiguane in these terms: “Being that the plebeians say to Water’ Water, as did many writers etiando Tuscan before Dante, these Aiguane (for Voltolina are Tavine) sang sweetly asleep no less fishermen and passengers, as did the Sirens of Homer. “The same Ninfaera also called Lady of Spring waters, able to create new sources dry up or to make existing ones.
Legend has it that these nymphs also had the authority to perform spells, incantations. Heck, jealous of their power, had given to persecute chasing them at night and slaughtering so that many of them were killed; if they could not take them if they were not helped in the hunt, devils, by any man who favored them of any word.
It narrache one night passing a farmer for that place and imagining sentendorumore and produced by dogs intent to find some hare, began to shout, seize, seize. The next morning, nailed to the portadi his house, he found a love of woman with fingers joined by a membrane as they have the ducks. A hand of those Aiguane-Tavine and that the devil had him nailed to him in the hunt c’havea made ​​helped him.
Legend has wandered to the lake so that the story of the “Feast of the duck” of Desenzano, a step that tells Capolaterramani of these nymphs were also nailed a few doors.
The Voltolina source salodina wanted to make a nymph, and closes with this tale its “cultivation of vegetable gardens,” as with that of Aristaeus closes his Georgics Virgil, in which the legendary pastor of Thessaly, son of the nymph Cyrene; in love with Eurydice, wife of Orpheus, the chases and thereby causing his death. The nymphs punish him, by killing his bees; only through the intercession of his mother, and with the advice of Proteus, can get it back. Got it, from ‘Arcadia Aristaeus is brought on Riviera Salo, accompanied by a host of pastors, in whose name the Voltolina alludes to the names of the countries on the opposite bank in Salo’: Portese Manerba, etc.. Here the shepherds decided to found a new Athens (an allusion to the University and Academy of the Unanimous Salo ‘desired by Voltolina).
They climb on top of a mountain (the Rock of Manerba); Here they find the Island of Garda that promises to become a new Corinth.
Recently, it was emphasized that one of the characteristics of the poetry of the Italian Renaissance was the taste of the invention of mythological stories along the lines of the ancient fables, myths etiological servonoa explain that the names of rivers, lakes and the city with tales of fabulous events. Myths that served to poetizzare nature, Darer to a ‘noble expression to the beauty of the landscape in the middle of the living poet qualeil.

Images of Tavine