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Description:Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food, and wine. It is said that he found comfort for his bad luck at dice and with Becchina, his unreciprocating lover, only by pouring venomous scorn upon his miserly parents. Cecco’s outbursts of rage against his fate and his earthly view of the world—poles apart from the Stil Novo of Cavalcanti and Dante, the target of some of his fiercest sonnets—are perfectly encapsulated in his poetry, which is presented here with the facing Italian text in C. H. Scott’s beautiful verse translation. This volume also includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s translations of Cecco Angiolieri’s poems.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sonnets. To get started finding Sonnets, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 270

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Alma Classics

Release: 2015

ISBN: 1847494633

Description: Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food, and wine. It is said that he found comfort for his bad luck at dice and with Becchina, his unreciprocating lover, only by pouring venomous scorn upon his miserly parents. Cecco’s outbursts of rage against his fate and his earthly view of the world—poles apart from the Stil Novo of Cavalcanti and Dante, the target of some of his fiercest sonnets—are perfectly encapsulated in his poetry, which is presented here with the facing Italian text in C. H. Scott’s beautiful verse translation. This volume also includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s translations of Cecco Angiolieri’s poems.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sonnets. To get started finding Sonnets, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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