Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature, in Two Parts ...Smith, Elder & Company, 1881 |
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Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature, in Two Parts, Volume 2 John Addington Symonds No preview available - 2015 |
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Alberti allegory amore ancient Ariosto Arthurian artistic Ballate Beatrice beauty Boccaccio Boiardo Bologna Canto Canzone Carducci chivalrous love Cino classical Commedia compositions Convito Court culture Dante Dante's death Decameron dialects diction Divine Comedy emotion epic epoch feeling feudal Firenze Florence Florentine Folgore Francesco French genius Guelf Guido Cavalcanti Guido Guinicelli heart human humanistic hymns Ibid ideal idiom Italian language Italian literature Italian poetry Italo-Provençal Italy lady language learned legend lingua literary Lombard Lorenzo lover Medici medieval middle ages modern Morgante nature noble Orlando Palermo passage passed passion period Petrarch poem poet political Poliziano popular prose prove Provençal Pulci race recognised religious Renaissance rhyming Rinaldo Roland Romagnoli Roman Rome sacred satire sense Sicilian Song of Roland songs sonnets soul speech spirit story studies style thee thirteenth century thou thought tion translation Tuscan vernacular verse vision Vita Nuova vulgar Latin vulgar tongue
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Page 453 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 16 - L' una vegghiava a studio della culla , E consolando usava l' idioma, Che pria li padri e le madri trastulla : L' altra traendo alla rocca la chioma , Favoleggiava con la sua famiglia De' Troiani, e di Fiesole, e di Roma.
Page 19 - Ch'ogni erba si conosce per lo seme. In sul paese ch'Adige e Po riga Solea valore e cortesia trovarsi, Prima che Federigo avesse briga: Or può sicuramente indi passarsi Per qualunque lasciasse per vergogna Di ragionar coi buoni o d'appressarsi.
Page 520 - A veder pien di tante ville i colli, par che il terren ve le germogli, come vermene germogliar suole e rampolli. Se dentro un mur, sotto un medesmo nome, fosser raccolti i tuoi palazzi sparsi, non ti sarian da pareggiar due Rome.
Page 378 - I went a-roaming, maidens, one bright day, In a green garden in mid month of May. Violets and lilies grew on every side Mid the green grass, and young flowers wonderful, Golden, and white, and red, and azure-eyed ; Toward which I stretched my hands, eager to pull Plenty to make my fair curls beautiful, To crown my rippling curls with garlands gay. I went a-roaming, maidens, one bright day, In a green garden in mid month of May.
Page 133 - Ella era in questa vita già stata tanto, che ne lo suo tempo lo cielo stellato era mosso verso la parte d'oriente de le dodici parti l'una d'un grado, sì che quasi dal principio del suo anno nono apparve a me, ed io la vidi quasi da la fine del mio nono.
Page 277 - I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down.' 'What gat ye to your dinner, Lord Randal, my son? What gat ye to your dinner, my handsome young man?' 'I gat eels boiled in broo; mother, make my bed soon. For I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down.
Page 69 - I say most truly, the spirit of life, which hath its dwelling in the secretest chamber of the heart, began to tremble so violently that the least pulses of my body shook therewith; and in trembling it said these words: Ecce deus fortior me, qui, veniens, dominabitur inihi.
Page 350 - Master, give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb, and strength to the paralyzed limb, but we can work miracles of grace and mercy by relieving the distress of our suffering brethren.
Page 502 - Parva sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta meo sed tamen aere domus.