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Sonnets: Dual Language
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Artikel-Nr:
9781847494641
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.03.2015
Seiten:
200
Autor:
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
Gewicht:
204 g
Format:
196x130x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The author of a monumental collection of sonnets, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863) is the greatest poet to have written in the Roman dialect, and is regarded as one of the finest Italian poets of the nineteenth century.
Set against the chequered background of Rome, the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes, prostitutes, parasites and the poor - Belli's sometimes scandalous sonnets deal with life's elementals: love, death, sex, food, money, family, religion and politics.In his immense oeuvre, sampled here in a sizeable and varied selection of the best poems, people from every course and manner of life have their say - housewives, mothers, beggars, lovers, businessmen, popes, whores, doctors, thieves, lawyers, priests, pen-pushers, actresses, gossips and many more. Their voices and preoccupations are brilliantly and accurately rendered in this dual-language volume by prize-winning novelist and poet Mike Stocks, one of the finest sonneteers of our day.