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“To Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel, 1509”
I have already grown a goiter in this drudgery— As water does to cats in Lombardy, Or in whatever other region it may be— Which forces my belly to hang under my chin. I feel my beard skyward, and memory On top of my coffer,and my chest like a harpy’s; And on my face all…
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“A Giovanni da Pistoia quando l’autore dipingeva la volta della Sistina, 1509”
I’ ho già fatto un gozzo in questo stento, come fa l’acqua a’ gatti in Lombardia o ver d’altro paese che si sia c’a forza ‘l ventre appicca sotto ‘l mento. La barba al cielo, e la memoria sento in sullo scrigno, e ‘l petto fo d’arpia, e ‘l pennel sopra ‘l viso tuttavia mel…
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