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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:N E N C I A. A PASTORAL POEM. By Lorenzo De' Medici, surnatned "The Magnificent." Translated for the first time, and in the original metre, from the Italian. [This pastoral by the great Florentine Ruler, Lorenzo the Magnificent, is taken from the Italian text, printed at Bergamo in 1763 A.d. The Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:N E N C I A. A PASTORAL POEM. By Lorenzo De' Medici, surnatned "The Magnificent." Translated for the first time, and in the original metre, from the Italian. [This pastoral by the great Florentine Ruler, Lorenzo the Magnificent, is taken from the Italian text, printed at Bergamo in 1763 A.d. The Bergamese editor remarks, of the fifty stanzas composing it, " Sono nel loro genere incomparabili; " and all may certainly admire the dramatic force with which the illustrious Medicean has, as it were, entered into the very heart and soul of his peasant, to depict a rural passion. The " Nencia " was probably written about A.d. 1480 - the dawn of the golden age of Italian art - when the " Magnificent" Lorenzo was chief of all the scholars and poets, as well as of his citizens of Florence, and gathered at his table such men as Michael Angelo, I,ura Signorelli, Ghirlandajo, Filippino Lippi, Botticelli, Pulci, Poliziano, and Pico de Mirandola.] I Burn with love; - love makes me bold to sing Praise of the damsel who undoes my heart; Each time I think a little tender thing About her, 't is as if my breath would part: The world her match for beauty cannot bring, No other eyes such lovely lightnings dart; In town and tower and city have I been, But seen none nowhere like my country-queen. To Monticelli, every market-day, To Prato, Empoli, and San Casciano, To Poggibonsi, and to Colle gay, By San Donato down to Dicamano; To Castelfranco, all Figline-way; San Pier', Montagna, Borgo, Gagliano, Ofttimes I wend, - a-buying and a-selling, - And Barberin, where my Nenciozza 's dwelling. But never once - saving at Barberin - See I a girl so dear, discreet, and taking, With cheek, and neck, and nape, and dimpled chin So smooth and white: or of such Books, Poetry~~European~~English Irish Scottish Welsh, Secret-of-Death~~Edwin-Arnold, 999999999, Secret of Death, Edwin Arnold, 1425337686, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<