Sunday, February 13, 2011

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The ten most beautiful love poems in Italian literature

Quanto ho detto nel post dedicato alle canzoni d'amore vale anche per le poesie, visto che la maggior parte dei versi scritti dai poeti italiani (e non solo) sono versi d'amore indirizzati per lo più alla donna o all'uomo oggetto d'amore. Fa eccezione una poesia unica quale è "A Silvia" di Giacomo Leopardi, qui l'amore (ormai perduto) non è soltanto riferito alla figura femminile ma anche alla vita e alla natura, come si capisce leggendo questi pochi indimenticabili versi: « Mirava il blue, / The golden streets, gardens, / And thou from the distant sea, and then the mountain. / Tongue can not say / That I felt then. / / What sweet, / What hopes, what hearts, O Silvia mia! / What appeared to us / The Life and Fate! .
The poems which he dedicated to his Dante Beatrice Portinari shows an immense love of the Tuscan poet against women, its words (brilliant) Beatrice raise the height of the goddesses: "She goes , feeling praise, / d Benignly 'clothed with humility, / And it seems that something is coming / From heaven to earth to show miracle. / / Mostrasi so pleasing to him who seeks, / That gives them eyes to a sweetness to the heart, / That can not comprehending those who do not test .
Beautiful also verses that Petrarch wrote to his Laura de Noves, who does not remember the opening words of this famous poem: "Clear fresh and sweet water / Where the fair members / Pose only one who seems to me woman / Gentil branch where it pleased, / (With sighs I remember) / In her column next to the beautiful .
Attilio Bertolucci wants to express his love with a precious and fragrant snow-white flower, a white rose, which becomes the portrait of his beloved future thirties: "I will take for you / The last rose of the garden / rose white flowering / early mists. / [...] / It is a picture of yourself for thirty years. / A little 'forgetful as you will then .
panic atmosphere which pervades a world of mythical and savage scene is recreated by Libero De Libero in his wonderful love poem that begins: "We embraced the night / we saw the night ashore / River drowned / in the face and hair. / We found the dawn / narrow wing / hand and dementia: / and a tree, another tree / still speaks to people. "
Matraini Chiara was a sixteenth century Italian poet who wrote some fine poems of love for a young unfortunate, in a poem paragona ad un girasole (elitropio) che, come è sua natura, si gira sempre dalla parte del sole che è incarnato dal suo grande amore: « Com'elitropio al sol sempre mi giro / a voi, luce gentile de gli occhi miei, / nè d'altra vista l'alma o 'l cor potrei / pascer giamai dovunque i' vado o miro. / / Per voi m'accendo, in voi sola respiro, / nè, se volessi ben, fuggir vorrei / gli ardenti lampi a me sì dolci e rei / che la strada a ben far sempre m'apriro ».
Il secondo sonetto dantesco che ho scelto è sempre rivolto all'amata Beatrice la quale produce un effetto benefico simile a qualcosa di divino in chi la osserva, come dimostrano these verses: "The view onne thing is his humble, And does not seem pleasing herself alone, / But each receives honor for her. / / And it's so nice in her acts, / That no one can bear in mind, / That does not sigh in sweetness of love. "
meditation is the opera by Alessandro Parronchi entitled "Days". The poet, speaking to his wife, initially makes a remark about the unpredictability of the day to live, " Every day we meet, love, / do not know whether happy or sad we will see in the evening. Always / something unexpected disappoint or deceive. And everything is inevitable / nor can we change it. " Then Parronchi clarifies the reason for which it was born from this meditation: the poet has tried to ease somewhat the pain of forced, even if momentarily, away from his beloved, but he, in turn was the victim, so not to find the right words to express his despair: "And now ... / the train takes me back / away from you, love, / - tunnel, sunset, tunnel / I do not know what to say to the indirect force / that lead me to you / me away from you: / faster, even faster! .
Poetry of Robert Carifi is a heartfelt thanks to his wife for having won a number of factors that put together, consolidate the birth of a great love: " Thanks for the word / still turn in my heart, / for that radius from the well / you received as a gift / and my drop / let there be / like wheat in a desert, / for that your beauty, and to the divine shadow of your eyes, / I would like for your sweetness that kiss / how to kiss the innocence ... .
Finally a poem by Francesco Gaeta, a poet who was much appreciated by Benedetto Croce and wrote many love poems, and among the best I have chosen "no greeting" which recounts the end of a presentiment of love: "With May you n'andrai. Most will not see / Loggia and the nut with the church berth, / [...] / not raise his eyes, when you go. / The love that you took almost hidden, / the love that I would not be paid, / is one of the things that never Come back again. " Awareness of the late noble sentiment is clear, but a great love never ends at all, because in the end the poet urges the woman starting to think and remember how great was his passion and yet discreetly amorous toward her "But think a day, with melancholy, / that love charmer, holy love, / love looking past next thee, / and, not to hurt you, it's gone .


1 "A Silvia" by Giacomo Leopardi, from "Poems and Prose" of the Leopards, Hoepli, Milano 1983.
2 " So gentle and so honest it seems " by Dante Alighieri, from "Anthology of Italian poetry," Giusti, Livorno 1932.
3 "Clear fresh and sweet waters" by Francesco Petrarca, from "The most beautiful love poems in Italian literature", Newton Compton, Roma 1993.
4 "The White Rose" by Attilio Bertolucci, from "Fire of quiet days" of the same Bertolucci, Rizzoli, Milano 1991.
5 "We embraced the night " Libero De Libero, from "Romance" by De Libero, Under the Pesce d'Oro, Milan 1965.
6 " Com 'Elitropio the sun always around me " Chiara Matraini from "Writers of Italy", Newton Compton, Roma 1991.
7 " see perfectly onne health" by Dante Alighieri, from "Anthology of Italian poetry," Giusti, Livorno 1932.
8 "Days" by Alessandro Parronchi, from "Courage to live" the same Parronchi, Garzanti, Milano 1960.
9 "Thanks for the word "Roberto Carifi, from" Autumn Love "by the same Carifi, Bloomsbury Publishing, Modena 1998.
10 " Without greeting "by Francesco Gaeta, from" Poems "of the same Gaeta, Laterza, Bari 1928.

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