Guido Gozzano
Guido Gozzano – Convito / Banquet
John William Waterhouse, Hylas and the nymphs,1896 To me it is sweet, bent forward to survey the grate’s hoarse embers,
26/03/2020
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Guido Gozzano
Guido Gozzano – Ora di grazia
Henri Lebasque, Spring landscape, 1913 Sono nato ieri che mi sbigottisce il carabo fuggente, e mi trastullo della cetonia risopita
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Guido Gozzano
Guido Gozzano – L’assenza / Absence
Plinio Nomellini, On the terrace, 1916 A kiss. And she’s far off. She disappears down there, where the wooded road,
26/03/2020
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Guido Gozzano – Un rimorso / Regret
Louis Abel-Truchet, Elegants wandering in Paris, 1915 Oh the gloomy Palazzo Madama… the evening… the crowd that fades, darker… I
26/03/2020
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme XIX
Agnolo Bronzino, An Allegory with Venus and Cupid (Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time), c. 1545 Quella candida mano che le
26/03/2020
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 84
Titian (Tiziano), The Worship of Venus, c. 1519 Baci, sussurri e vezzi, sospir tronchi e parole raddoppia a cento a
25/03/2020
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme XLIV
Piero della Francesca, The Nativity (detail), c. 1470 Most soothing song, let me hear you once more and then let
25/03/2020
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme XLII
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Love and the maiden, 1877 Let the sun bring the night and the fair, radiant moon
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Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme 307
Titian (Tiziano), Mars, Venus and Love, c. 1530 There are upon these shores no flowers as red as my mistress’
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Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Rhyme XVIII
Jean Honoré Fragonard, Diana and Endymion, c. 1753 O you, far colder, whiter than she who makes less fair the
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Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Tacciono i boschi e i fiumi / The woods and the rivers fall silent
Franz Von Stuck, Evening star, c. 1912 The woods and the rivers fall silent, and the sea without waves rests,
24/03/2020
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso – Se ‘l mio core è con voi / If my heart is with you
Alessandro Varotari, called Padovanino (1588 – 1648), Venus And Mars If my heart is with you, as it wishes, where
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Attila Jozsef
Attila Jozsef – Ti aspetto sempre / I wait for you
Felice Casorati, The prayer, 1914 I wait for you there’s dew on the rough grass sprawling branches wait for you
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Stobaeus (Stobeo) – La filosofia /Philosophy
Raphael (Raffaello), The School of Athens, c. 1510 Philosophy is both hunting and craving for truth. For some – like
24/03/2020
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Focilide – Stirpi di donne
Fernando Botero, The Arnolfini (after Van Eyck), 1997 Da quattro bestie discendon le donne:cagna, ape, scrofa e cavalla.La cavalla è
24/03/2020
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Erinna – Lamento a Bauci
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), Hercules bringing Alcestis back from the Underworld I bianchi cavalli smaniosisi levavano dritti sulle zampecon grande strepito;
24/03/2020
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Horace (Orazio) – Satire
Salvador Dalì, The Path of Enigma, 1981 Ibam forte Via Sacra… Nescio quid medi – tans nugarum, totus in illis…
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Meleager (Meleagro) – Epigram 144
Philip Richard Morris, The arrival of spring, c. 1880 Already the white violet is in flower and narcissus that loves
24/03/2020
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Licymnius (Licimnio) – Fragment 770
Jose Benlliure Y Gil, The Barque of Charon, 1919 In ten thousand streams it gushes with tears and pains…the Acheron
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Anacreon (Anacreonte) – Ode LVII
Guido Reni, The boy Bacchus, 1620 Bring the bowl – be quick my boy!Let us here the draught enjoy! With five
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Tibullus (Tibullo) – Elegie (I, 1)
Jacques-Louis David, The Love of Helen and Paris (detail), c. 1788 This be my fortune: let him be justly rich
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Anacreon (Anacreonte) – Fragment 396
Charles-Joseph Natoire, Venus and Cupid, c. 1750 Bring water, boy, bring wine, bring me garlands of flowers:fetch them, so that
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Ibycus (Ibico) – Fragment 11
John Singer Sargent, Apollo and the Muses, 1921 Eros’ eyes have stunned me againwith a melting glance from beneath his
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Alcman (Alcmane) – Partenio / Partheneion
Jacopo Palma il Vecchio, Nymphs bathing (Diana and Callisto), c. 1525 The gods’ vengeance does exist. Blessed is anyonewho blinds
23/03/2020
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Palladas (Pallada) – Fragment 5,72
Titian (Tiziano), The Bacchanal of the Andrians, c. 1526 We’ve life and nothing else. Life is delight–But short. Be off
23/03/2020
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Cicero (Cicerone) – Cato Maior de Senectute
Dosso Dossi, Circe and her Lovers in a Landscape, c. 1525 I do not want to whimper over life, as
23/03/2020
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Stesichorus (Stesicoro) – Fragment
Max Klinger, Love, Death And Beyond, 1881 When a man dies,all the goodwill from men perishes. Colla mortesvanisce ogni favore
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Horace (Orazio) – Ode XI: Carpe diem
Giovanni Andrea Podestà, Putti in a landscape, 1650 Show wisdom. Strain clear the wine; and since life is brief, cut
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Ibycus (Ibico) – Come il vento del nord rosso di fulmini / Dry North wind
Giovanni Bellini, Orpheus, c. 1515 In spring Cydonian apple-trees,watered by fountains ever flowingthrough crofts unmown of maiden goddesses,and young vines,
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Archilochus (Archiloco) – Fragment 191
Correggio, Jupiter and Io, c. 1533 So strong was the storm of love which gathered in my heart, that over
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Archilochus (Archiloco) – Fragment 131
Francisco Goya, The Shipwreck, 1794 …be driven off course by the waves.And may the Thracians with topknots give a warm reception
23/03/2020
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Anacreon (Anacreonte) – Fragment 413
Parmigianino, Cupid Making His Bow, c. 1535 Once more, like a blacksmith, Erosbattered me with his huge axe,and doused me
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Horace (Orazio) – Ode XX
Nicolas Poussin, Midas and Bacchus, 1624 Cheap Sabine wine, in modest cup, come, drink with me. I sealed it up
23/03/2020
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Asclepiades – Epigram (12.166)
Lucas van Leyden, Venus and Cupid, 1530 Let this that is left of my soul,whatever it be, let this at
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Asclepiades – Epigram
John Atkinson Grimshaw, Ariadne at Naxos, 1877 It is night, in the middle of winter; the Pleiades have set.I walk
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Aeschylus (Eschilo) – Limpide acque / Bright water
Salvador Dalì, The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937 If bright water you stain with mud, you nevermore will find it fit
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Pindar – Anima / O my soul
Odilon Redon, The Fall Of Icarus, 1876 O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,but exhaust the limits of
23/03/2020
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Theognis (Teognide) – La gru / The crane
Claude Monet, Cap d’Antibes, Mistral wind, 1888 I have heard the cry of the bird, Polypaides,calling shrilly, the bird which
22/03/2020
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Mimnermus – Elegy
Francois Lemoyne, The amorous proposal, 1725 But what life would there be, what joy, without golden Aphrodite?May I die when
22/03/2020
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Mimnermus – Perpetuo male / Zeus gave
Bernardo Strozzi, Old Woman at the Mirror, c. 1615 Zeus gave Tithonus the evil gift of immortal Eld,which is even
22/03/2020
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Horace / Orazio – Ode X
Tommaso Dolabella, St. Raymond of Penyafort, 1627 You’ll do better, Licinius, not to spend your lifeventuring too far out on
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Stesichorus/Stesicoro – Apollo
Lorenzo Costa, The reign of Comus, 1511 Apollo loves dances and gamesand songs most of all,but mourning and lamentation belong
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Marcus Aurelius – Adatta te stesso / Adapt yourself
Alessandro Allori, Allegory of human life, c. 1590 Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast
22/03/2020
Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi – Movimento / Movement
Pascal Campion, The day gravity stopped working, 2016 I go… you go… we go… Still, don’t ask where, they would
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Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi – Lo sconosciuto / The stranger
Renè Magritte, The great century, 1954 Have you seen him tonight? I’ve seen him. Did you see him last night?
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Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi – Salisci, mia Diana
Giacomo Mantegazza, Lovers and chaperone meeting on the Venetian canal, 1900 Salisci, mia Diana, salisci, salisci codesto scalino, salisci, non
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Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi – Oh! Bel prato fiorito!
Sir Edward John Poynter, Horae Serenae, 1894 Oh! Bel prato fiorito! Dai più dolci colori colorato! Da tutti peschi in
22/03/2020
Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Fuga
Henry Scott Tuke, The promise, 1888 Brevi sono le forme che il caos inquieto produce. La vita è fiamma vinta.
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Ballata
Giacomo Ceruti (called Il Pitocchetto), Little beggar girl and woman spinning, c. 1725 Ecco la casa ov’io vidi la luce
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Ultima speme
Hermanus Posthumus, Landscape with Roman Ruins, 1536 La nostra misera gloria é una pingue colonia per il vorace appetito dei
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Giorgio Caproni
Giorgio Caproni – Oh cari / Oh dear
Joan Miró, Constellation: Awakening in the Early Morning, 1941 They all clearly appeared. All of them, mother. All in the
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