← Poetry of Torquato Tasso (Critical Edition) / Le rime di Torquato Tasso. Edizione critica.← Torquato Tasso
Love Poems for Lucrezia Bendidio
Author
Original Work
Translator
Editor
Max Wickert
Language
Year
2011
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
290
ISBN
9781599102634
WHEN TORQUATO TASSOwas still in his teens, he fell in love with Lucrezia Bendidio, a noted beauty and singer at the court of Ferrara, and wrote the first one- hundred-and-twenty of his five hundred love poems for her . Max Wickert has editedthe Italian texts, with his new English verse translations on facing pages. In his Introduction, he outlines the process of Tasso’s successive rearrangements and analyzes some of the key themes in these poems. Dual-Language Poetry. Introduction, chronology, bibliography, notes, appendices, first-line index.— Google Books
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