Alma Pater, pastor vere

Christicolarum omnium

Per te diu doluere

Mentes nostrorum omnium

 

Misera trucibus

Sustulisti tam perversa

Heu captivatus, minibus

 

Neepolitani nobiles

Quos diligebas tamen

Heu non fuerunt nobiles

 

Ulcisce tuum munere

Egena illorum atria

Repleverat innumere

Ingrata tua patria

 

Dudum profusis lacrimis

Nostre sunt uncte facies

Quod te dum malos comprimis

Atrox obcedit acies

 

Intra suos vidit muros

Omni cantanda feria

Casus diu pati duros

Te flebiles luceria

 

Aproximate English translation

Kindly father and true shepherd

Of all Christians

For a long while, for you have lamented

The minds of our people

 

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Such miserable captivity

Evil, alas you have suffered

From brutal hands

 

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Those Neapolitan nobles

Even those you esteemed highly

Were no gentlemen

 

Be avenged, offer the deserved reward

On their wretched halls,

They were rewarded excessively

By your ungrateful fatherland

 

A while since with copious tears

Were our faces anointed

As you suppressed evildoers

The cruel sharp blade threatens

 

Luceria from within her walls she has seen you

Always feted with songs

Long since you endured wretchedness

Lamentable for you