Day: April 6, 2020

Anne Hebert – Gli offesi / The Offended

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Il Quarto Stato (The Fourth Estate), 1901 By rank of hunger, the indigents were lined upby rank of anger, the seditious were examinedby rank of good conscience, the masters were judgedby rank of offense, the humiliated were interrogatedby rank of mutilation, the crucified were consideredin this extreme misery the mutes came …

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Gerard de Nerval – Viale del Lussemburgo / A path in the Luxembourg Gardens

Walter Crane, Art and Life, 1907 She passed me, the young lady,lively and swift as a swallow,in her hand a shining lily,from her mouth a new song follows.She’s perhaps the only one in the landwhose heart to mine would react,who, taking my doleful hand with but a look would me impact!But no, my youth is felled…Farewell, …

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