The Cybersybils Present Vol. IV, Chap. 4: Fournarinas

Rossetti: Pia and her Ravens

R del C

Descendant of a Renaissance Venus,
Whose ancestors, the Knights of Nigredo,
guarded fair Lake Como's shores,
Ravenna del Corvo hails from an
illustrious background that began when
Apollo turned Thessalian swan into raven.

This modern Proserpine was born beneath
the sign of November's heavenly Scorpion,
ruled by planet Pluto, Persephone's king,
whose sweet light guides those souls below;
Above you will find no swifter sword,
to right a wrong or place evil in its hole,
for the Black Crow flies swiftest at night
and roosts at Sant' Abbondio a Como.

But when a black-faced cloud the world doth threat,
In his dim mist the aspiring mountains hiding,
From earth's dark womb some gentle gust doth get,
Which blows these pitchy vapours from their bidding,
Hindering their present fall by this dividing;
So his unhallow'd haste her words delays,
And moody Pluto winks while Orpheus plays.

William Shakespeare
The Rape of Lucrece