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V Ape Italiuna. — No. XXI. 



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all who lever? Hie elej.ince of Tuscan 

 genius, who feel tlie charm of her po- 

 tent spell over the miud and fancy, iiud 

 who have had the fortune to be present 

 in the Tuscan capital at those gratui- 

 tous distributions of flavoured poetic 

 eloquence so liberally offered (o the 

 cultivated stranger in the eniaptured 

 circles of her two greatest poetesses, 

 SignoraFontestici and SignoraMazzei. 

 The elegy is given in the original 

 for the perusal of our readers, amaleiirs 

 of one of the softest dialects known to 

 the human race, and we subjoin a few 

 of those explanations and translations 

 for the amusement of olhers, which ils 

 ready beauties as a sudden effusion ex- 

 tort from us, or which its transitions 

 ■ may I'cnder necessary. 



LA PRIMAVERA, ELEGIA. 

 " Gia sgombre iniro le montane vette 

 Dalle copiose aevi, un nuovo ammauto 

 Vestir di verdi rugiadose erbette. 

 " Fra le tenere frondi ascolfo il caato 

 Delia gia' peregriua Roudinella, 

 Che il nido intesse al caro sposo accauto. 



" Di mille vaghi fior si cuopre ed abbella 

 11 pria deserto prato, e quivi lieta 

 S'asside col Pastor la Pastorella 



• Pin chiaro splende lo magg-ior pianola 

 ' ■ L'irato soffio d'Aquilon si face, 

 \ E I'oceano le procelle acqueta. 

 ' " Amor seuotendo la divina face, 

 •y. Ardor novello net create iiifonde 

 4 E il riso di natura e' piu vivace. 



, "Ahi! mentre il cielo, il mar, I'aere, le 

 k frondi 



. Tutto ad amar ne riconsiglia ed invifa 

 1^ Solo il cor mio con mesti Lai ? rispoude ! 

 "Da te divisa, o caro ben, smarrita 



Per selve, e piag-nje inospite ni'ag-^iro 



E' m' e la solitudine gradita. 



" Quivi libera almen piango e sospiro, 



^ E rimembraiido i troppo brevi istanti 



- "Di mia feticitd, col ciel m'adiro. 



•< Tal voha ad alta cima i passi erranti 

 Volgo anelanto in fin ch9 al giiardo m'o 

 Vasto orizzonte ss discuopre inuauti. 



),*'E con avido ed insiemc foUe des^o 

 Ccrco volgendo i lumi in ver ponerte 



' ^ La Terra che ti c'.iiude, Idolo mio ! 



_*f Ma aliiuic I che I'alma si fa piu dolente 

 Nnl ripeiisar, die Tampio buolo, e il 



marc 

 Trapposto, al desei mete, anco disscute '. 

 " Son mio solo conforto allor, le care 

 'luf Bcmbianze, e miraiido i lumi bei 

 Pur sento in parte lo mio duol calniare. 



r *' 1M« nel avorio dove pinto soi 



Nou i quel brio che Tauima li donna 

 f'he ti rose siguor de' pcuwicr niiei. 



Monthly Mau.No, 'AM. 



" lo fj parlo, ma oh Dio nou si sprigiona 

 L' amato labbro o quel soavi detti 

 Co' quail Amor piu Paninie Iroprigiona. 



" Caldi baci v' imprimo, ed i dolre affetti 

 Qual ritorno scambievole uou haiuio 

 Sola sorgente de' piu gran diletti. 



" Ah ! quando mai fia che il destin tiranno 

 Per uoi se cangi, e che pictoso amore 

 Dolce conipeuso accordeal lungo affanno. 



" E quando avvien che cuore a cuore 



In cstasi soavissime rapiti 



Fuggau pernoi, quel brevi istanti, Tore! 

 " Ma oh Cielo ! intanto sugli Elbani liti 



Forse altra Ddima piu' de me vezzosa ', 



T'ama, e tu cedi ai nioili inviti ! 



" Ahi pensier crudo ! dajl 'alma dogliosa 

 Fuggi, che il cuore a laeerar mi sento, 

 E me' la vita in ta! sospetto odiosa. 



" Del Amor, s« in scno all' idol mio fia 

 spcnto 

 L" ardor che accese una medesima face 

 I\Ii giunga morte, e fla minor tormento 

 Che in lui sta Talma mia, sta la mia 

 pace." 



TRANSLATION. 



Spring is a grateful return of pleasure 

 to all the inhabitants of tlie e.irlli ; an 

 cicapc, liowever, from the deluges of an 

 Italian winter, infuses additional ani- 

 mation into the joyous souls of flielfar 

 lians, and our poefess, susceptible of 

 its full force, addresses her assembled 

 admirers in tlie first stanza, by an in- 

 vocation of tile earliest vernal prognos- 

 tics, wliere the '•mountain tops, disbur- 

 tliened of their copious snows, receive 

 the new mantle of the dewy green, and 

 the stranger swallow returns to buiid 

 his ues(, whilst between the youthful 

 leaves we listen to his voice." 



The meadow, covered and adorned 

 with countless Ijeautcous flowerets, 

 wliere repose in joyful Jiarniony the 

 sheplierd and liis partner, tJie bright- 

 ness of the greater planet, and tlie si- 

 lence of the angry florcas, whilst the 

 storms of Ocean are quieted in the 

 universtil tranquillity, proclaim tlie 

 splendid completion of the vernal tri- 

 umph. Love, too, with the shake of 

 his divine torch, infused anew ardour 

 into the creation, I)y adding his grate- 

 ful vivacity to the smile of nature. 



Not so gladdened was the soul of our 

 poetess, divided from the object nearest 

 to her heart, she concealed not the au- 

 guisli which devouied her, and ex- 

 claims, amidst the aspect of all (he joys 

 of nature, that "• divided from her 

 only solace, slie wanders thnnigh the 

 rugged and inhospitable woods, accep- 

 table only to the melancholy of soli- 

 tude, where free, at lea^t, from Iniman 

 -' ^i observ.it ion, 



