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Andrea del Sarto

Pictor Ignotus, Fra Lippo Lippi

By Robert Browning, Francesco Rognoni (Editor)

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| Paperback | 9788831768849

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Book Description

Tre poemetti narrativi, tre raffinati monologhi drammatici, tre storie, tre ritratti di pittori che insieme vanno a costruire, in un gioco intricato di voci e di punti di vista, di rispecchiamenti e di simmetrie un'unica scena di una Firenze rinascimentale, anch'essa fatta di luci e ombre, scorci noContinue

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Well, Lucrezia / cit.

No sketches first, no studies, that's long past:
I do what many dream of, all their lives,
--Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive—you don't know how the others strive
To paint a little thing li ... (continue)

No sketches first, no studies, that's long past:
I do what many dream of, all their lives,
--Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive—you don't know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,--
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter)--so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
There burns a truer light of God in them,
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain,
Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt
This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine.

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