Arion Press Cavalcanti Sonnets, Ezra Pound
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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. (who edited the Italian texts, prepared prose translations and commentaries). Illustrated with an etching in colors by Joseph Goldyne. (Folio) 34x24 cm (13½x9½"), quarter brown morocco & green silk covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. No. 17 of 150 copies printed on Fabriano handmade Umbria paper, under the direction of Andrew Hoyem.
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.
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Near Fine. UPDATE 11/2/2016: Area of slight discoloration to spine leather and a scoff to front leather and silk; near fine.
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Arion Press Cavalcanti Sonnets, Ezra Pound
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