Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Zimmer: Let My Home Be My Gallows, artist - Anthony Hopkins. Date of issue: 31.12.2000
Song language: English
Zimmer: Let My Home Be My Gallows |
| Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei… |
| Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei… |
| HANNIBAL: |
| Because of his avarice, and his betrayal of the emperor’s trust, |
| Pier della Vigna was disgraced, blinded, and imprisoned. |
| Dante’s pilgrim finds |
| Pier della Vigna on the seventh level of the Inferno. |
| Like Judas Iscariot, |
| he died by hanging. |
| But Judas and Pier della Vigna are linked in Dante by the |
| avarice he saw in them. |
| In fact avarice and hanging are linked in the medieval |
| mind |
| Now this is the earliest known depiction of the Crucifixion, carved on an ivory |
| box in Gaul, about A.D. four hundred. |
| It includes the death by hanging of Judas, |
| his face upturned to the branch that suspends him. |
| Here he is again on the |
| doors of the Benevento cathedral, hanging. |
| This time with his bowels falling |
| out |
| Now on this plate from the fifteenth-century edition of the Inferno Pier della |
| Vigna’s body hangs from a bleeding tree. |
| I will not belabour the obvious |
| parallel with Judas Iscariot, but Dante Alighieri needed no drawn illustration: |
| It is his genius to make Pier della Vigna, now in Hell, speak in strained |
| hisses and coughing sibilants as though he is hanging still |
| Come l’altre verrem per nostre spoglie |
| Ma non però ch’alcuna sen rivesta |
| Ché non è giusto aver ciò ch’om si toglie |
| Qui le trascineremo, e per la mesta |
| Selva saranno i nostri corpi appesi |
| Ciascuno al prun de l’ombra sua molesta |
| Avarice, hanging, self destruction |
| Io fei gibbetto a me le mie case |
| Make my own home be my gallows |