¡ Hola, Rosalita, Dulcinea Mia !

So you just pulled me over and issued me a ticket, because my Licencia de Conducir Poemas has expired.

¡ Good thing you didn't check my other papers -- I never passed my Prueba de Conducir a la Poesia !

¡ No tengo seguros poeticos ! (En contra de las poemas malaconducidas.)

Okay so I drive a little outside the lane markers at times. But you already know my approach to rendering something into an alternate idiom. I don't think I did a "lawn job" on the lyrics.

Actually, I had no idea what the song was about, so I looked into it. What is called "Santa Clara" in Spanish was built in Naples Italy about 6-7 hundred years ago by the Queen Sancha of Majorca and her husband King Roberto of Naples, in honor of Saints Francis of Assisi and Chiara (pronounced with a hard "c"). It is, not just one building or one institution, but an entire walled complex including a basilica (church), nine (9) chapels, a monastery, and a convent, as well as tourist amenities.

1. I thought I was putting it in English. Although there are references to the "Clarisses", the only explicit reference to the name that I found in any English-language source was "Saint Chiara". "Clara" is a perfectly valid name in English as well as Spanish, but none of the sources used that name. There is a problem with consistency, though, as I used "Saint" in the title, but "Santa" in the body of the text. I should correct that.

2. The complex contains both a monastery and a convent. I don't really know the significance of the location to the persona reminiscing about it; I just chose the item that gave the best alliteration -- hard-"c" Chiara, hard-"c" Convent. It's not like I've got a rhyme scheme going for me. Do you know more about the backstory? I don't want to use "Saint Chiara Complex" -- it's too objective or institutional a term, unrelated to the subjective process of reminiscence.

3. I wasn't really going for the Italian thing, but your "Napoli" seems to work better in terms of rhythm and accents. What do you think?

4. "Hidden" was a placeholder word. There is a word I am reaching for that means "hidden", yes, but also means "kept", as well as "surviving" and "still concealed". I just can't put my finger on it right now. "Maintained" or "preserved", ehh, the words are just too objective, they give the sense that his memories of the place are being put on display in a museum, rather than being relived subjectively with reverie, in the privacy of his own mind.

5. He is reliving the memories of the scents of Capodimonte Gardens. The gardens are not on the premises of Saint Chiara, and their scents have to get from the gardens, slightly north of the Saint Chiara complex, to the complex itself, in order to be perceived and thus remembered. Thus the reference to "perfume wafts and weaves ... through your streets", not in the original, but, again injecting a little alliteration. Also, back to that over-objectification thing -- "conserve", like "preserve" and "maintain", is too objective, too heavy-handed a term. The idea being here, more or less, "It still smells the way I remember it." Not a terribly artistic way to put it, though.

6. In, around, through, in front of, I am not sure the preposition was terribly significant. I was looking for alliteration again here:
sOUNDs
resOUND
arOUND
fOUNTain

So there you are. I thank you for your questions and will correct that "Santa Chiara" thing, and maybe the "Napoli" thing. I'm still working on that word for "hidden" / "concealed". Yes the latter word is w-a-a-a-y too strong. but since the complex is contained within the stone walls (and I cant see through stone walls), I could see referencing that, although "hidden" is, as you observed, not completely on target and incomplete as far as meaning goes. (I actually stole that usage of "guardar" from my own rendering of "Inolvidable"). I don't think I will come up with much better for #5, because of the entire "tone" thing -- reminiscence and journalism are two separate fields, with different vocabularies, different jargons. As far as #6, I already gave up the word "sOUNDs" -- should I give up a second alliteration as well? Although four(4) half-rhymes may have been too much, a little too ham-handed, should I really cut it again from three(3) to two(2)?

Good to hear from you again.