CONTENTS

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Preface [vii]
Essays
i. Giosuè Carducci and the Hellenic Reaction in Italy [1]
ii. Carducci and the Classic Realism [29]
Translations
i. Roma [57]
ii. Hymn to Satan [58]
iii. Homer [66]
iv. Virgil [67]
v. Invocation to the Lyre [68]
vi. Sun and Love [70]
vii. To Aurora [71]
viii. Ruit Hora [76]
ix. The Ox [77]
x. To Phœbus Apollo [78]
xi. Hymn to the Redeemer [81]
xii. Outside the Certosa [84]
xiii. Dante—Sonnet [85]
xiv. In a Gothic Church [86]
xv. Innanzi, innanzi! [88]
xvi. Sermione [89]
xvii. To a Horse [93]
xviii. A Dream in Summer [94]
xix. On a Saint Peter's Eve [97]
xx. The Mother [99]
xxi. “Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto” [101]
xxii. Carnival.
Voice from the Palace [102]
Voice from the Hovel [103]
Voice from the Banquet [105]
Voice from the Garret [106]
Voice from Beneath [107]
xxiii. Sonnet to Petrarch [109]
xxiv. Sonnet to Goldoni [110]
xxv. Sonnet to Alfieri [111]
xxvi. Sonnet to Monti [112]
xxvii. Sonnet to Niccolini [113]
xxviii. In Santa Croce [114]
xxix. Voice of the Priests [115]
xxx. Voice of God [116]
xxxi. On my Daughter's Marriage [117]
xxxii. At the Table of a Friend [119]
xxxiii. Dante [120]
xxxiv. On the Sixth Centenary of Dante [126]
xxxv. Beatrice [127]
xxxvi. “A questi dí prima io la vidi. Uscia” [130]
xxxvii. “Non son quell'io che già d'amiche cene” [131]
xxxviii. The Ancient Tuscan Poetry [132]
xxxix. Old Figurines [133]
xl. Madrigal [134]
xli. Snowed Under [135]