My Epitaph

My Epitaph - meaning Summary

A Playful Mock-elegy

This short mock-epitaph frames life as a lamp kept alight by Youth, Nature, and a compassionate Jove. The speaker credits those forces with trying to preserve him, but a figure named Romanelli is said to have "blown it out," abruptly ending the lamp. The tone is wry and humorous rather than mournful, turning a traditional funerary address into a brief, ironic anecdote about an overpowering person or event that caused his death.