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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 20: Italy.—May to September, 1839.—Age, 28. (search)
afternoon, when he sallied out for dinner or a walk. With such devotion, his progress even exceeded his expectations. He read not only Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, Boccaccio, Macchiavelli, Guicciardini, Alfieri, and Niccolini, but several minor authors, whose neglected works are explored only by the most assiduous students of Italian I had seen the chief of those things in Rome that require mid-day, so that I was able to keep in the house. I read Dante, Tasso's Gerusalemme, the Decameron of Boccaccio, the Rime of Politian, all the tragedies of Alfieri, the principal dramas of Metastasio —some six vols.,—the Storia Pittorica of Lanzi, the Principe of Macchiavelli, the Aminta of Tasso, the Pastor Fido of Guarini; and much of Monti, of Pindemonte, Parini, the histories of Botta, the Corbaccio and Fiammetta of Boccaccio, &c. Since I left Rome I have continued my studies; have read the Promessi Sposi by Manzoni,—the finest romance I have ever read,—the Rime of Petrarch, Ariosto, all of Mac
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
y Macready and Felton, that I had not a moment of grace to converse with you. Do you remember that Dryden in his fables has translated several of the tales of Boccaccio? Sigismonda and Guiscardo,—Theodore and Honoria,—and Cymon and Iphigenia. Of these Wordsworth says, in a letter to Scott, I think his translations from BoccacBoccaccio are the best, at least the most poetical, of his poems. He has altered Boccaccio's names. One that is particularly admired as a noble poem, by Wordsworth, is Theodore and Honoria. You will find their character considered by Scott in his Life of Dryden. I cannot tell whether these ought to find a place in your translations. Boccaccio's names. One that is particularly admired as a noble poem, by Wordsworth, is Theodore and Honoria. You will find their character considered by Scott in his Life of Dryden. I cannot tell whether these ought to find a place in your translations. The sun shines cheerily upon my going. I depart in search of health. To this I have descended. Dr. Jackson still insists that my condition is very serious, and commends me to great care of myself. Perhaps he is right, and my future life to be that of a halting invalid. At the thought of this—not at the idea of death, for of <