Ezra Pound's translation of Cavalcanti
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Heading: (Arion Press)
Author: Cavalcanti, Guido
Title: Thirty-Three Sonnets of Guido Cavalcanti
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Arion Press
Date Published: 1991
Description:
Author: Cavalcanti, Guido
Title: Thirty-Three Sonnets of Guido Cavalcanti
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Arion Press
Date Published: 1991
Description:
Translated by Ezra Pound. Introductory Essays by Hugh Kenner and Lowry Nelson, Jr. Illustrated with an etching in colors by Joseph Goldyne. (Folio) 34x24 cm (13½x9½"), quarter brown morocco & green silk covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Copy 'K' of 26 produced hors de commerce, 150 numbered copies.
The poetry of Cavalcanti, a leading poet of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries and a close friend of Dante, was rescued from virtual obscurity by Ezra Pound, who translated his works into English. Prospectus laid in.
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Leather backing and spine a bit sunned, unevenly; else fine.
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Ezra Pound's translation of Cavalcanti
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