Giovanni Fattori, La libecciata, 1885 Rain is your dress. Mud is your shoes. Wind is your cloth. But the sun is your smile and your mouth. The night of haystacks is your hair. But your smile and your warm skin are the fire of earth and stars. (Transl. by D. Foglia) La pioggia è il …
Corrado Govoni – La pioggia è il tuo vestito / Rain is your dress Read More »
Isaac Levitan, A day in June, 1895 Skylarks rejoicein the calm holidays of heaventhe olive darkens on the groundthe green fades awayin the robin’s clear ticking. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Esultanze d’allodolenelle feste calme del cieloin terra l’oliva imbrunail verde svanisceal ticchettio terso del pettirosso. This is a personal translation. Please contact me if you …
Georges Seurat, A Sunday on la Grande Jatte, 1886 Sotto la torre, al parco, di domenica,con pacata follia, per ore e oreimmobile a guardarti. Avevo gli occhigonfi, e il sesso, e il cuore.Infastiditai tuoi polsi snervati dalla miaestasi, “Lasciami” hai detto, di fuggirtimi hai consigliato.Sono egoista elo spirito umano ha più bisogno dipiombo, che di …
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1871-1945), Romeo and Juliet Farewell Lunge da voi, mio core, mille volte m’uccide il mio dolore. Perché la mia partita mi tolse l’alma; e s’io ripenso in lei mi ritoglie la vita, e tutti sono morti i pensier miei. Oh miseria infinita! È quel felice ch’una volta more. Do you know this poem …
Gregorio Lazzarini, Rinaldo and Armida, c. 1690 As if it were Proteus or a magician, beauty shifts its shape and changes image: comes forth now white, now black, in two beautiful eyes, now gentle, now savage; now in sweet sapphires hues it goes on soft and pleasant tours with Love, now with pearls, now purple, …
Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, Butterflies, 1891 Already you flew four times and you are In that so tender breast, A lovely butterfly, now you are dead by the lamp. I do not desire light, nor am I so foolish; But I would want death Where fate did not want to give it to you. O …
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