The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2)

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a wife, both highly gifted, devoting their talents to celebrate each other. These were Giambattista Z

lack, her features regular, and her complexion pale and delicate; a style of beauty which, in its perfection, is almost peculiar to Italy. To the mutual tenderness of these married lovers, we owe some of the most elegant among the lighter Italian lyrics. Zappi, in a Sonnet addressed to his wife some time after their union, reminds her, with a tender exultation, of the moment they first met; when she swept by him in all the pride of beauty, careless or unconsc

a ch'io m'ave

or m'accese, e

onna o dea, n

to, o pur dal

hinò in umil

d'un sguardo

ta in cielo, o

ra il suo viag

se a me, "cost

riderai de

ol per te ta

se ad ella: "I

? Costui ch'or

i miraco

et in Faustina

ievo delle

s her own confiding tenderness. It is full

esìa, vezz

o, valor d'

no 'l mio cor

fetti miei p

e, e non can

vo de' miei

r husband had formerly loved;[61] the sentiment of which is truly beautiful and feminine: never was jealousy so amiably, or so delicately expressed. There is something very dramatic and picturesqu

NE

nto al mio be

pregi tuoi p

il bel crine,

d ora i saggi

o le voci a

i, qual uom ch

te luci al

olge) a te v

lumi, a le d

rse un tempo, e

al suol gli

r che le tue g

ndi! Ah non

uoi dir ch'ei

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so charm'd my li

auties still h

hair, and words

look'dst, was he

those sweet an

gaze as now o

w thy love was

the grace that st

hou those beam

? Ha! I see (a

eek the crimson

answer me!-yet

lent, if thou

adored thee, love

art and the fancy to break out into voluntary song, which men call inspiration." She became a member of the Arcadia, under the pastoral name of Aglaura Cidonia; and it is remarkable, that

ch has great sweetness and picturesque effect, he compares himself to the Venetian Gondolier, who in the calm or the storm pours forth his songs on the Lagune

, sebben la

, e fende il

o a un bel ra

nia infra l'o

the Moses of Michel Angelo; but his forte is the graceful and the

rò? Far

ree times three, and the table in a roar. An Italian Brindisi transports us at once among flasks and vineyards, guitars and dances, a dinner al fresco, a group à la Stot

ige

ta

sa, il bel

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ola, 1668; died

on her marriage with Zappi

d who married another. Zappi's Sonnet to this lady, "Ardo per Filli,

erm of endearment, which it is not ea

slated by