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La bella ninfa e sorda al mio lamento E'l suon di nostra fistula non cura: Di cio si lagna il mio cornuto armento, Ne vuol bagnare il grifo in acqua pura Ne vuol toccar la tenera verdura; Tanto del suo pastor gl'incresce e dole." The two introductory lines preface each stanza. This first one is thus translated by Symonds, whose English version is here used throughout.
In her leisure hours she generally employed a certain Antonio Grifo" a well-known student and commentator of Dante "or some equally gifted man, to read the Divina Commedia, or the works of other Italian poets, aloud to her.
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