Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), Susanna and the Elders, c. 1555 He who, most ungrateful, leaves me, I belove;and he who, devoted, pursues me, I dare leave.Thus, constantly, I adore who makes me grieve;I aggrieve who, ever constant, offers love.When I offer my love, a diamond hardens;and a diamond I am to sweet affection.Great victory I want …
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 …
Albert Lynch, The letter, 1890 From School-boy’s tongue no Rhet’ric we expect,nor yet a sweet Consort from broken strings,nor perfect beauty where’s a main defect.My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so sings,and this to mend, alas, no Art is able,‘cause Nature made it so irreparable.Nor can I, like that fluent sweet-tongued Greekwho lisp’d at first, in …
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), Hercules bringing Alcestis back from the Underworld I bianchi cavalli smaniosisi levavano dritti sulle zampecon grande strepito; il suono della cetrabatteva in eco sotto il portico vasto della corte.O Bauci infelice, io gemendopiango al ricordo.Queste cose della fanciullezza hanno ancora calorenel mio cuore, e quelle che non furono di gioia,sono cenere, ormai. …
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