cristu

Updated: July 6, 2026

Alas! he is dead; he sleeps; he cannot hear! Then they turn again to tears and curses, feeling that no help or comfort can come from the clay-cold form. The intensity of grief finds strange language for its utterance. A girl, mourning over her father, cries: 'Mi l'hannu crucifissatu Cume Ghiesu Cristu in croce. Once only, in Viale's collection, does any friend of the dead remember mercy.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series