Sonnets and BallateSmall, Maynard, 1912 - 119 pages |
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Sonnets and Ballate: With Translations of Them, and an Introduction (Classic ... Guido Cavalcanti No preview available - 2018 |
Sonnets and Ballate: With Translations of Them, and an Introduction Guido Cavalcanti No preview available - 2015 |
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Allor altra altro Amor angoscia anima avea BALLATE Ballatetta bella donna Buondelmonti ch'è che la ciascun ciel salita ciò colpo colui contare convien cor dolente core d'ogni Dante Dante Alighieri Dante's Death delight di Cavalcanti dicendo Dino Compagni doglia dolce dolor doth eyes EZRA POUND fatto fear fece figura gentil gioia grace gran grief guarda GUIDO CAVALCANTI guisa hath heart high quest l'anima lady Lady's Lagia Love Love's mente mercè mercede Mercy mind Molto morire morte mostra Nerone noble occhi ogni valore paura pensier persona pesanza piacere pianto pien piena pietà pity porta posso priego può quale rhythm sente sento sguardo sighs soave soffrire sonnet SONNETS AND BALLATE sospiri soul spirit spiritel sweet tanta thee thine thou Tolosa torments tremare tutto unto vede vedere veggendo veggio vertù vile virtù nel ciel virtue Vita Nuova
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Page xiii - La virtii is the potency, the efficient property of a substance or person. Thus modern science shows us radium with a noble virtue of energy. Each thing or person was held to send forth magnetisms of certain effect; in Sonnet XXXV, the image of his lady has these powers.
Page xxi - ... in an ultimate and absolute rhythm as I believe in an absolute symbol or metaphor. The perception of the intellect is given in the word, that of the emotions in the cadence. It is only, then, in perfect rhythm joined to the perfect word that the two-fold vision can be recorded.
Page xii - The departure of the soul." Than Guido Gavalcanti no psychologist of the emotions is more keen in his understanding, more precise in his expression; we have in him no rhetoric, but always a true description...
Page viii - O vanagloria dell' umane posse, Com' poco verde in su la cima dura, Se non è giunta dall ' etati grosse! Credette Cimabue nella pintura Tener lo campo, ed ora ha Giotto il grido, Sì che la fama di colui oscura.
Page 71 - Michele in Orto, Guido mine, Near her fair semblance that is clear and holy Sinners take refuge and get consolation. Whoso before her kneeleth reverently No longer wasteth but is comforted ; The sick are healed and devils driven forth, And those with crooked eyes see straightway straight. Great ills she cureth in an open place, With reverence the folk all kneel unto her, And two lamps shed the glow about her form. Her voice is borne out through far-lying ways 'Till brothers minor cry : ' ' Idolatry,...
Page xxiii - I have lived with these sonnets and ballate daily month in and month out, and have been daily drawn deeper into them and daily into contemplation of things that are not of an hour.
Page 102 - 1 mio cor sente, Fu tratto sol d'una Donna veduta, La quale è sì gentile, ed avvenente, E tanto adorna, che '1 cor la saluta : Non è la sua biltate conosciuta Da gente vile, che lo suo colore Chiama intelletto di troppo valore. Io veggio, che negli occhi suoi risplende Una virtù d'Amor tanto gentile, Ch'ogni dolce piacer vi si comprende : E muove allora un'anima sottile.
Page xxii - It is basic in poetry and music mutually, their melodies depending on a variation of tone quality and of pitch respectively, as is commonly said, but if we look more closely we will see that music is, by further analysis, pure rhythm; rhythm and nothing else, for the variation of pitch is the variation in rhythms of the individual notes, and harmony the blending of these varied rhythms.
Page 15 - Who is she coming, drawing all men's gaze, Who makes the air one trembling clarity Till none can speak but each sighs piteously Where she leads Love adown her trodden ways? Ah God! The thing she's like when her glance strays, Let Amor tell. Tis no fit speech for me. Mistress she seems of such great modesty That every other woman were called "Wrath.
Page xiv - Thou shalt see the rays of this emanation going up to heaven as a slender pillar of light, or, more strictly in accordance with the stanza preceding: thou shalt see depart from her lips her subtler body, and from that a still subtler form ascends and from that a star, the body of pure flame surrounding the source of the virtu, which will declare its nature. I would go so far as to say that "II Paradiso...