Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) - its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and (14797306463)

Identifier: italyfromdanteto1919cott (find matches)
Title: Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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re manly than anythingwritten by Petrarca after the death of I^aura. As it is theunderlying thought rather than the form that is valuable inMichelangelos poems, I shall not take the liberty of borrowingany of Mr. Symondss elegant verse paraphrases, but shallmerely mention and illustrate by quotation some of the mostinteresting of the Madngali and Sonetti. Some of the poems in which he uses the idea of the statuelying hid in the rough marble are Madrigal XII and SonnetsXIV and XV, all three addressed to Vittoria Colonna. Asby removing the external envelopment, he says, the sculptorreveals within the rough marble (in pietra alpestra e dura) aliving form, which grows more and more distinct where thestone is more and more cut away, so canst thou, lady, liberateme from the rough external parts of my nature and reveal 1 Hardly known until 1863 except in the miserable version published (1623)by his conceited nephew, who improved the text audaciously to smt thetaste of his contemporaries. S7^
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