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I found this tucked away behind a construction site in the fransiscan monastery in Bolzano/Bozen a couple of days ago and thought I might share. I thought the weeping Death was rather sweet! I have no idea when it might have been composed/carved.

I used it as an excercise to practice scansion. I'll leave a transcription here (there's a couple of weird spellings) for anyone else who might want to do the same.

>MORS MORTALIBUS

>Non mihi quos rapui sunt cordi defleo Vivos

>Qui quovis puncto rapiendi Numi(n)a ludunt!

>Dic mihi si mea Flax Te nunc deleret in ictu

>Quam Tibi spo(n)deret tua Vita peracta salutem?

>Conscius ergo tuae Sortis perpende Timenda,

>Ut Vivendo Mori discas, Moriendoque Vivas