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Francesco Baldovini : 'Lamento di Cecco'

Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807: 'Read a little of the "Lamento di Cecco," which, having often heard of, I had never seen before. It is a beautiful, simple, but not vulgar pastoral, in the Tuscan patois; but after the first three or four stanzas, not very difficult to understand. If it were, there are notes, which swell a poem of forty stanzas into a tolerable-sized quarto volume!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry      Print: Book

Francesco Baldovini : Lamento di cecco da Varlungo

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      

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