oh wow
french canadian juwish pleebian leper shills judas priests haav false gifts
>french canadian juwish pleebian leper shills judas priests haav false gifts
>>23079526
>>>>>>>>intergalactic corn flavored jelly donut city on duh moon
>>>>>>>gahylien spacechips chitpost yazis out next to volcano
>>>>>>david bowie brand gahyjuwwiggur canadian bacon lunchables
>>>>>1138 pages of royal indulgences at ickey ouse castle
>>>>Yes, London. You know: fish, chips, cup 'o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins… LONDON.
>>>damn leper shills
>>importid miracle black baby
>all this clownburgur for kenedy smut
>>23079429
>>trotsKY$ fired
>>23079404
>>corn found
>butt wuz taht gay tho
>>23079342
>big fudge seize french canadain gurms freaky fichtl flaggy
>>23079339
>rushin chicken tractor image board of pleebs an chickenhawks
LIFE or DANTE. xxiii
tells us, too, that at the time of her decease, he chanced to be composing a canzone in her praise, and
that he was interrupted by that event at the COrlCl‘lS‘.On of the first stanza; a circumstance which we
can scarcely suppose to have been a mere invention.
Of the poetry, with which the “Vita Nuova" is plentifully interspersed, the two sonnets that
follow may be tal1ten as a specimen. Near the beginning he relates a marvellous vision, which appeared
to him in sleep, soon after his mistress had for the first time addressed her speech to him ; and of this
dream he thus asks for an interpretation :— '
" To every heart that fee's the gentle flame,
To whom this present saying comes in sight,
In that to me their thoughts they may indite,
All health! in Love, our lord and master's name.
Now on its way the sesond quarter came
Of those twelve hours, wherein the stars are bright,
When Love was seen before me, in such might,
As to remember shakes with awe my frame.
Suddenly came he, seeming glad, and keeping
My heart in hand ; and in his arms he had
My lady in a folded garment sleeping
He waked her; and that heart all burning bade
Her feed upon, in lowly guise and sad
Then from my view he tumed; and parted, weeping."
To this sonnet Guido Cavalcanti, amongst others, returned an ansver in a composition of the same
form, endeavouring to give a happy turn to the dream, by which the mind of the poet had been so
deeply impressed. From the intercourse thus begun, when Dante was eighteen years of age, arose that
friendship which terminated only with the death of Guido.
The other sonnet is one that was written after the death of Beatrice :
" Ah, pilgrims! ye that, haply musing, go,
On ought save that which on your road ye meet,
From land so distant, tell me, I entreat,
Come ye, as by your mien and looks ye show?
Why mourn ye not, as through these gates of woe
Ye wend along our city's midmost street,
Even like those who nothing seem to weet
What chance hath fall‘n, why she is grieving so
If ye to listen but a while would stay,
Well knows this heart, which inly sigheth sore,
That ye would then pass, weeping on your way.
Oh, hear: her Beatrice is no more
And words there are a man of her might say,
Would make a stranger's eye that loss deplore."
In the “Convito,"1 or Banquet, which did not follow till some time after his banishment, he
explains very much at large the sense of three out of fourteen of his canzoni, the remainder of which
he had intended to open in the same manner. “The viands at his banquet,” he tells his readers,
quaintly enough, “will be set out in fourteen different manners; that is, will consist of fourteen
canzoni, the materials of which are love and virtue. Without the present bread, they would not be free
from some shade of obscurity, so as to be prized by many less for their usefulness than for their beauty ;
but the bread will, in the form of the present exposition, be that light which will bring forth all their
colours, and display their true meaning to the view. And if the present work, which is named a
Banquet, and I wish may prove so, be handled after a more manly guise than the ,Vita Nuova,' I
intend not, therefore, that the former should in any part derogate from the latter, but that the one
should be a help to the other : seeing that it is fitting in reason for this to be fervid and impassioned ;
that, temperate and manly. For it becomes us to act and speak otherwise at one age than at another ;
XXIV LIFE OF DANTE.
since at one age certain manners are suitable and praiseworthy, which at another become dis
proportionate and blameable.” He then apologises for speaking of himself. “I fear the disgrace,”
says he, “ of having been subject to so much passion as one, reading these canzoni, may conceive me
to have been : a disgrace that is removed by my speaking thus unreservedly of myself, which shows not
passion, but virtue, to have been the moving cause. I intend, moreover, to set forth their true
meaning, which some may not perceive, if I declare it not." He next proceeds to give many reasons
why his commentary was not written rather in Latin than in Italian ; for which, if no excuse be now
thought necessary, it must be recollected that the Italian language was then in its infancy, and scarce
supposed to possess dignity enough for the purposes of instruction. “ The Latin,” he allows, “would
have explained his canzoni better to foreigners, as to the Germans, the English, and others ; but then
it must have expounded their sense, without the power of, at the same time, transferring their beauty ; ”
and he soon after tells us, that many noble persons of both sexes were ignorant of the learned language.
The best cause, however, which he assigns for this preference, was his natural love of his native tongue,
and the desire he felt to exalt it above the Provencal, which by many was said to be the more beautiful
and perfect language ; and against such of his countrymen as maintained so unpatriotic an opinion he
inveighs with much warmth.
In his exposition of the first canzone of the three, he tells the reader that " the lady of whom he
was enamoured after his first love was the most beauteous and honourable daughter of the Emperor of
the Universe, to whom Pythagoras gave the name of Philosophy :” and he applies the same title to the
object of his affections, when he is commenting on the other twc.
The purport of his third canzone, which is less mysterious, and, therefore, perhaps more likely to
please than the others, is to show that “ virtue only is true nobility.” Towards the conclusion, after
having spoken of virtue itself, much as Pindar would have spoken of it, as being “the gift of God
only ”— “ Che solo Iddio all‘ anima la dona,"
he thus describes it as acting throughout the several stages of life :
“ L' anlma, cui adorna," &c.
“ The soul, that goodness like to this adorns,
Holdeth it not conceal'd;
But, from her first espousal to the frame,
Shows it, till death, reveal'd.
Obedient, sweet, and full of seemly shame,
She, in the primal age,
The person decks with beauty; moulding it
Filly through every part.
In ripcr manhood, temperate, firm of heart
With love replenish'd, and with courteous praise,
In loyal deeds alone she hath delight.
And, in her elder days,
For prudent and just largeness is she known ;
Rejoicing with herself,
That wisdom in her staid discourse be shown.
Then, in life's fourth division, at the last
She weds with God again.
Contemplating the end she shall attain:
And looketh back; and blesseth the time past.
His lyric poems, indeed, generally stand much in need of a comment to explain them ; but the
difficulty arises rather from the thoughts themselves, than from any imperfection of the language in
which those thoughts are conveyed. Yet they abound not only in deep moral reflections, but in
touches of tenderness and passion.
Some, it has been already intimated, have supposed that Beatrice was only a creature of Dante's
imagination ; and there can be no question but that he has invested her, in the “ Divina Commedia,”
with the attributes of an allegorical being. But who can doubt of her having had a real existence, when
she is spoken of in such a strain of passion as in these lines?
" Quel ch‘ ella par, quando un poco sorride,
Non si pub dicer ne tenere a mente,
Si E: nuovo miracolo e gentile."—I1ira Nuoz"a.
LIFE OF DANTE. XXV >>23081892
“ Mira che quando ride
Passa ben di dolcezm ogni altra cosa."—Canz. xv.
The canzone from which the last coupiet is taken presents a portrait which might well supply a painter
with a far more exalted idea of female beauty than he could form to himself from the celebrated Ode of
Anacreon on a similar subject. After a minute description of those parts of her form which the
garments of a modest woman would suffer to be seen, he raises the whole by the superaddition of a
moral grace and dignity, such as the Christian religion alone could supply, and such as the pencil of
Raphael afterwards aimed to represent :
" Umile vergognosa e temperata,
E sempre a verttl gram,
Intra suoi be' costumi un atto regna,
Che d' ogni riverenza la fa degna."1
One or two of the sonnets prove that he could at times condescend to sportiveness and pleasantry.
The following, to Brunetto, I should conjecture to have been sent with his “ Vita Nuova,” which was
written the year before Brunetto died :
“ Master Brunetto, this I send, entreating
Ye'll entertain this lass of mine at Easter;
She does not come among you as a feaster;
No: she has need of reading, not of eating.
Nor let her find you at some merry meeting,
Laughing amidst buflbons and drollers, lest her
Wise sentence should escape a noisy jester:
She must be wooed, and is well worth the weeting.
If in this sort you fail IO make her out,
You have amongst you many sapient men,
All famous as was Albert of Cologne.
I have been posed amid that leamed rout.
And if they cannot spell her right, why then
Call Master Giano, and the deed is done.”
Another, though on a more serious subject, is yet remarkable for a fztncifulness such as that with
which Chaucer, by a few spirited touches, often conveys to us images more striking than others have
done by repeated and elaborate efforts of skill:
“Came Melancholy to my side one day,
And said, ‘I must a little hide with thee :'
And brought along with her in company
Sorrow and \'rath.—Quoth I l. her, ‘ Away:
I will have none of you: make no delay.‘
And, like a Greek, she gave me stuu reply.
Then, as she tnlk‘d, I look'd, and did espy
Where Love was coming onward on the way.
A garment new of cloth of black he had,
And on his head a hat of mouming wore;
And he, of truth, unfeignedly was crying.
Forthwith I ask'd, ,What ails thee, caitifi‘ lad '2'
And he rejoin'd, ‘ Sad thought and anguish sore
Sweet brother mine1 our lady lies a-tlying."'
' For purity of diction, the rime of our author are, I think, on the whole, preferred by Muratori to
his “ Divina Commedia,” though that also isallowed to be a model of the pure Tuscan idiom. To
this singular production, which has not only stood the test of ages, but given a tonc and colour to the
> manslaughter. They insist on calling it "murder"
https://streamable.com/9pmdkw
>>23081733
>french canadian juwish pleebian leper shills judas priests haav false gifts
>>23079526
>>>>>>>>intergalactic corn flavored jelly donut city on duh moon
>>>>>>>gahylien spacechips chitpost yazis out next to volcano
>>>>>>david bowie brand gahyjuwwiggur canadian bacon lunchables
>>>>>1138 pages of royal indulgences at ickey ouse castle
>>>>Yes, London. You know: fish, chips, cup 'o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins… LONDON.
>>>damn leper shills
>>importid miracle black baby
>all this clownburgur for kenedy smut
>>23079429
>>trotsKY$ fired
>>23079404
>>corn found
>butt wuz taht gay tho
>>23079342
>big fudge seize french canadain gurms freaky fichtl flaggy
>>23079339
>rushin chicken tractor image board of pleebs an chickenhawks
pikes!
fanta se juw coke princess unibrow see colon run trots,KY$
>rust the plan
tramp vunse moo juw guy pan