In amor ci vuol ardir
Troppo timido mio cor,
Scaccia ohmai, scaccia il timor
Se tu brami di gioir.

In love one must be bold,
My heart is too timid;
Banish now, banish fear
If you long to be delighted.

Bembo set this short quatrain of seven-syllable lines known as settenari as a short virtuosic aria whose challenging étude style underscores the poem’s injunction to pursue courage (“Antonia Bembo,” Goldberg 6). Even though “Aurelia Fedeli” is the only poetic attribution found in Produzioni armoniche, the similarities of the remaining poems to the oeuvres of Fedeli and Romagnesi lead us to this speculation: might some of these texts represent the continuing output of both mother and son? To judge from reports that Fedeli preserved her physical beauty and continued to don the latest fashions even into her nineties, it seems quite plausible that her poetic muse remained with her even if she had no further need to publish her work.