The woman playing a lute is thought to be Gaspara Stampa, among the saddest figures in literary history.

弹琵琶的女人被认为是加斯帕拉·斯坦帕 (Gaspara Stampa)，她是文学史上最悲伤的人物之一。

In the painting, Stampa is reading a score held by an African boy—doubtless modelled on a slave, possibly one of the many who began life as a subject of the Ottomans or Mamluks and were captured at sea by Venetian mariners.

在这幅画中，斯坦帕正在阅读一个非洲男孩拿着的乐谱——毫无疑问，他是以一名奴隶为原型的，他可能是众多开始生活为奥斯曼帝国或马穆鲁克臣民并在海上被威尼斯水手俘虏的人之一。