Cold Cold Ground

In the springtime of life
Elisa
daughter of Luigi and Rosa Calamai.
A young lady of good and modest temperament
and virtuous and religious feelings,
she was the love of her family,
and February 9 1850
after a long and wearing illness,
the sweet kiss of the Savior
took her at the age of 18.

Grief-stricken and weeping parents,
mourning sisters,
your sweetest Elisa,
having fled the many sadnesses of this world,
is an angel in Paradise.
Be consoled.

Photographed in the cloister of the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence by Passante in 2001.