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Petrarch:The Canzoniere

Translated by: A.S.Kline
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ITALIAN ENGLISH
Pasco la mente d'un sí nobil cibo,
ch'ambrosia et nectar non invidio a Giove,
ché, sol mirando, oblio ne l'alma piove
d'ogni altro dolce, et Lethe al fondo bibo.

Talor ch'odo dir cose, e 'n cor describo,
per che da sospirar sempre ritrove,
rapto per man d'Amor, né so ben dove,
doppia dolcezza in un volto delibo:

ché quella voce infin al ciel gradita
suona in parole sí leggiadre et care,
che pensar no 'l poria chi non l'à udita.

Allor insieme, in men d'un palmo, appare
visibilmente quanto in questa vita
arte, ingegno et Natura e 'l Ciel pò fare.
I feed my mind on such noble food,
I don't envy Jove ambrosia and nectar,
only by gazing, in that kind rain, I forget
all other sweets, and drink deep of Lethe.

At times I hear things to say, spoken in my heart,
so that I always find things to sigh for:
snatched up by Love's hand, I don't know where,
from one face I drink a double sweetness:

so that a voice, pleasing even in heaven,
sounds in such dear and graceful words,
that he who did not hear could never dream them.

Then together, in less than a span, appears
whatever art, wit, Nature, and Heaven
can visibly create in this life of ours.


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Peter Sadlon
Updated Sept 10th 2007

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