L’isola non trovata [English translation]

The most beautiful of them all is the unfound island

The one that the King of Spain got from his cousin

the King of Portugal with the royal seal

And the papal edict written in Gothic Latin.

The King of Spain sailed off

In search of the enchanted island

But the island wasn’t there

And nobody ever found it.

It vanshed before the galley’s

bow like an idea

like a wonderful utopia

it’s gone

and will never return.

Old corsars’ charts

bear a mysterious sign

sailors speak about it

with a superstitious fear

Nobody knows it really exists

or it’s a mere thought

sometimes the wind brings its smell

Like smoke you can’t catch it!

• Artist:Francesco Guccini