One poem in this language was written in response to a Napoleonic decree that banned the living from visiting graves anddictated set distances between cemeteries and inhabited areas. In addition to "On Sepulchres", Ezra Pound translated anotherpoem from this language that begins, "Who is she coming, drawing all men's gazes, / who makes the air one trembling clarity".Another poem in this language describes Love visiting the poet after he has a dream of a fiÂgure telling him "Ego dominuustuus" or "I am your Lord." That poem in this language appe
One poem in this language was written in response to a Napoleonic decree that banned the living from visiting graves anddictated set distances between cemeteries and inhabited areas. In addition to "On Sepulchres", Ezra Pound translated anotherpoem from this language that begins, "Who is she coming, drawing all men's gazes, / who makes the air one trembling clarity".Another poem in this language describes Love visiting the poet after he has a dream of a fiÂgure telling him "Ego dominuustuus" or "I am your Lord." That poem in this language appears in a work that ends with the speaker resolving to stop writingabout his beloved until he can write "of her what has never been said of any woman", and that work begins with the statement,"In that book which / is my memory / on the fiÂrst page . . . Appears the words / Here begins a new life." For 10 points, namethis language whose notable poets include Guido Cavalcanti and Dante.
One poem in this language was written in response to a Napoleonic decree that banned the living from visiting graves anddictated set distances between cemeteries and inhabited areas.
Italian