passan

Updated: January 25, 2026

It contains not only the "Giace Cartago," and the "appena i segni," &c., but the contrast of the pride with the mortality of man, and, above all, the "dying" of the cities, which is the finest thing in the stanza of its imitator. " Passan le signorie, passano i regni;"

Leigh Hunt - Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2