Petrarch

The letters are unaffected and moral, but tend to look favourably on suicide. The first, from Eleanora, is dated 19 May 1770. She writes to Maria of her growing love for Werter, who seems to...

Shorter pieces here include many sonnets, the most striking and complex of which are perhaps the two dedicated to George Sand that explore the apparent contradictions of gender and genius. To George Sand. A Desire...

He became a close friend of his fellow-poet Petrarch in 1350, and remained so for the rest of Petrarch's life. Each has been called the earliest humanist, because of their knowledge of ancient Greek.

The modesty in these prefatory remarks seems to relate only or chiefly to her plays, but the first poems in the collection (versions of Petrarch ) are preceded by a sonnet to Thomas James Mathias

The plays included are four: Gonzalvo of Cordova, Pedarias, Ina, and Xarifa. A Tragic Drama. Dacre restored the cuts made to Ina for staging, including the original version of the ending...

Translations from Petrarch 's sonnets by BBBD , collected in Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems, 1821, also appeared in a different form the same year: Ugo Foscolo reprinted them at the end of his...

In a dedication to her grandchildren (unpaginated), BBBD gives some history of her translations, made at different and distant periods of my life. She cites Mathias , Foscolo , and Panizzi , for...

BBBD 's almost-final publication (again privately printed, in a limited edition of a hundred and fifty copies by C. Whittingham ) had two title-pages: Traduzioni dall'italiano and Translations from the Italian. This too was...

BBBD wrote as an amateur in the Romantic period. She wrote dramatic works, mostly tragedies, often adapted from texts by other authors, and poems, mostly occasional verse and often translated from poems by others. Her...

The two first translations that she made, when young, from Petrarch , were of canzoni: Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte (which she rendered as From hill to hill I roam, and thought...

Her model for the sonnet, as well as for the use of male erotic voices from Petrarch and Goethe , was Charlotte Smith , though AB 's tone is more unrestrained and impassioned than Smith's.

The contents included odes, sonnets (including one sequence from Petrarch and another based on Goethe 's Werther, in which she speaks as the male lover of a woman, with notes relating her poems to...

The poems were Exile, Sonnet: at the Sepulchre of Petrarch (translated from Italian), The Fall of Switzerland, The Nereid, and the sonnets Good Friday, and Easter Day. All appeared in...