Stories from the Italian Poets with Lives of the Writers

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Title: Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1

Author: Leigh Hunt

Release Date: January 31, 2004 [EBook #10885]

Language: English

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STORIES FROM THE ITALIAN POETS: WITH LIVES OF THE WRITERS.


BY LEIGH HUNT.



IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I.




MDCCCXLVI.




TO SIR PERCY SHELLEY, BART.


MY DEAR SIR PERCY,

As I know no man who surpasses yourself either in combining a love of the most romantic fiction with the coolest good sense, or in passing from the driest metaphysical questions to the heartiest enjoyment of humour,--I trust that even a modesty so true as yours will not grudge me the satisfaction of inscribing these volumes with your name.

That you should possess such varieties of taste is no wonder, considering what an abundance of intellectual honours you inherit; nor might the world have been the better for it, had they been tastes, and nothing more. But that you should inherit also that zeal for justice to mankind, which has become so Christian a feature in the character of the age, and that you should include in that zeal a special regard for the welfare of your Father's Friend, are subjects of constant pleasurable reflection to

Your obliged and affectionate

LEIGH HUNT.



PREFACE.


The purpose of these volumes is, to add to the stock of tales from the Italian writers; to retain as much of the poetry of the originals as it is in the power of the writer's prose to compass; and to furnish careful biographical notices of the authors. There have been several collections of stories from the Novellists of Italy, but none from the Poets; and it struck me that prose versions from these, of the kind here offered to the public, might not be unwillingly received. The stories are selected from the five principal narrative poets, Dante, Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso; they comprise the most popular of such as are fit for translation; are reduced into one continuous narrative, when diffused and interrupted, as in the instances of those of Angelica, and Armida; are accompanied with critical and explanatory notes; and, in the case of Dante, consist of an abstract of the poet's whole work.

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Мать есть?

Паула,

Ну, если б мать была,
К обедне бы она пришла.

Сабина

Хозяин ничего?

Паула

Отличный.

Сабина

Есть сыновья?

Паула

Сын. Не женат он.
Элисы он живой портрет.

Сабина

Он тоже в церкви был?

Паула

О нет!
Мы не привыкли, хоть и брат он,
Чтоб он ходил с Элисой. Он
В тот монастырь, я замечаю,
Частенько ходит. Уж не знаю,
Ради которой из мадонн.

Сабина

Элиса, судя по всему,
Смиренница.

Паула

Представь себе!

Сабина

А кто-то есть? Как бы тебе
Сказать-то...

Паула

Как не быть ему!
Один... как уж сказать - не знаю.
Смущает нас. Так неспокойно!
Но все тут чисто и достойно, -
Уж ты поверь мне.

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