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Firenzuola, Surrey, and Watson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Patricia Thomson
Patricia Thomson*
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Queen Mary College, University of London
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      Deh le mie belle donne & amorose,
      Datemi il uer per uostra cortesia,
      Non è chiara tra uoi la donna mia,
      Come è '1 Sol chiar tra tutte 1' altre cose?
      5 Mirate il uolto, & uedrete le rose,
      In bianca neue rider tutta uia:
      Et per le perle e i rubini aprir la uia,
      A i bei pensier, che in lei bontate pose.

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Research Article
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Renaissance News , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , Winter 1965 , pp. 295 - 298
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1965

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References

1 Curtius, E. R., European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans. W. R. Trask (New York, 1953), pp. 180–182 Google Scholar.

2 The likeness between Watson and Surrey is further enhanced by their use of the same rhyme scheme. This can hardly, however, be evidence of a debt. Watson uses the sestina form throughout Hekatompathia, so that it frequently serves as the vehicle for his Itahanate imitations.

3 Cp. Passion v, based on a sonnet by Petrarch formerly, as Watson notes, translated by Chaucer.