[Michelangelo Buonarotti, Vivo al peccato, a me morendo vivo, “Rime”, 16th century.]
I live in sin, and dying to myself I live.
My life no longer belongs to me, but to sin.
My good comes from heaven,
my evil from myself,
from my own free will,
of which I have been deprived.
My freedom has been made a slave,
my godly part made mortal for me.
O unhappy state! To what misery,
to what a life I was born!
