– Italians

Cecco Angiolieri – La mia malinconia è tanta e tale / My melancholy is so great and such

Cristofano Allori, Judith with the Head of Holofernes, 1613 My melancholy is so great and such, that I cannot disbelieve that, if he knew it who was my mortal enemy, for me in pity would not, weep. She, from whom this comes, little cares; for she would be able, if she wished, cure me in …

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Gaspara Stampa – Io son da l’aspettar omai sì stanca / By now so sick of waiting

Telemaco Signorini, Non potendo aspettare, 1867 By now so sick of waiting, I’m by nowso beaten by the pain (by now the burnwon’t stop and he forgets so quickly howI trust in his return and how I yearn),that I cry out for her to give me rest,she of the pallid face and reaper’s knifewhose chilly …

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Guido Cavalcanti – Per man mi prese d’amorosa voglia / She took me by the hand

Paolo Veronese, Mars and Venus United by Love, c. 1570 She took me by the hand, with amorous desire,and said she had given me her heart:she led me beneath branches of cool leaveswhere I saw flowers of every color:and there I felt such joy and sweetnessthat the god of love – I seemed to see. …

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