The Last Voyage of Ulysses
Inferno - Canto XXVI Rejoice, oh Florence! You who are so grand that through nations and oceans your fame wings, and in Inferno see your...
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- Jun 25
- 1 min
Piu di me lieta non si vede a terra by Francesco Petrarch
There is no other happier than I, Neither shipwrecked who finally reached land, Washed up and shivering, ready to die, And humbled on his...
Translation
- Apr 2
- 4 min
Three Poems by Gabriele D'Annunzio
A Genre Picture The evening’s mild: darlings play, singing under the balconies; in the bars, headlong on wings, toasts and good bottles...
Translation
- Jan 8
- 6 min
Le Dolci Rime d’Amor ch’i Solia
The sweeter songs I sang in earlier days Must now be left behind, Along with all my gentler strains of mind, Although they may return,...
Translation
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
Beautiful New Rose by Guido Cavalcanti
Beautiful new rose, Precious renewer, By field and river I’ll happily sing Your every blessing—to the blooming verdure. Your sacred...
Translation
- Jul 5, 2022
- 2 min
Al Poco Giorno e al gran cerchio d'ombra by Dante Alighieri
To the short day and the great arc of shadow I've come, alas, walking over the pale hills Where all the colors have vanished from the...
Translation
- Jun 25, 2018
- 5 min
Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona by Dante Alighieri
We present a new installment of original Dante translations. To our knowledge, Dante’s lyric poems have never been presented in a way...
Translation
- Apr 7, 2018
- 4 min
A Late Dante Canzone: Amor, che movi tua vertu da cielo
Oh Love, who takes his power from on high, As the sun does its splendor, So do the rays of your perpetual fire Shine brighter where they...
Translation
- Dec 12, 2017
- 6 min
Dante's Canzone On Grace and Virtue: Poschia ch’amor del tutto m’ha lasciato
Since everything has already been taken, And joy forsaken, When such delight was never known before, Since Love could stand no more To...
Original Translation
- Nov 25, 2017
- 4 min
Amor, da che conven pur ch'io mi doglia
Love, since it's been decreed that I now must Suffer, in order to be heard; That I must show myself spent of virtue, Grant me the...
Translation
- Oct 15, 2017
- 4 min
The Rime Petrose of Dante Alighieri
Dante wrote a series of Canzoni (songs) entitled the Rime Petrose, the "Stone Rhymes." Here is the first installment of the Stone Rhymes....
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