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Complete Poems: Dual Language
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Description
Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the Dolce Stil Novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and adaptations of Ezra Pound. Born from the cultural ferment of thirteenth-century Florence, Cavalcanti's poetry is an extraordinary blend of unorthodox philosophy, sharp psychological insight and dazzling formal mastery.
Anthony Mortimer, acclaimed for his versions of Petrarch and Michelangelo, provides a new verse translation complete with notes, critical comment and biographical material: following in the footsteps of Rossetti and Pound, he presents a Cavalcanti who speaks for his own time and to ours.
Contents: Complete Poems, Notes on the text, Notes, Guido Cavalcanti's Life, Cavalcanti, Dante and the Dolce Stil Novo, The Poetry, Cavalcanti in English, The Forms of Cavalcanti's Poetry, Select Bibliography, Appendix 1: Cino da Pistoia's Poem to Cavalcanti, Appendix 2: Documents Relating to the Life of Cavalcanti
Product details
Published | 14 Mar 2012 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 192 |
ISBN | 9781847492944 |
Imprint | Alma Classics |
Dimensions | 198 x 128 mm |
Publisher | Alma Books |
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Reviews
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Anthony Mortimer's translations are both sensible and sensitive, avoiding the pitfalls of cod-medieval cliche in favour of a lucidity and precision in tune with the poet's style.
TLS
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This lively version demythologizes that extremely sad, brave poem, written when Cavalcanti was dying. Ezra Pound said that Cavalcanti was more modern in his mindset than Dante; this superb rendering gives us all the chance to savour that poet's tough edge.
AN Wilson
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With all his gravity, he has the secret of lightness.
Italo Calvino