Saturday, November 05, 2016

 

A Preponderance of Gloom

Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), Orlando Furioso IV.1.7-8 (tr. Barbara Reynolds):
In this our life, so full of envious spite,
And gloomier by far than it is bright.
The Italian, from Orlando Furioso secondo la princeps del 1516, edizione critica a cura di Marco Dorigatti ([Florence:] Leo S. Olschki, 2006), p. 68:
in questa assai più oscura che serena
vita mortal, tutta d'invidia piena.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 8:09 AM


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