ripiove

Updated: May 20, 2025

Then after the first ten days of rain, which seemed to refer us fatally to Alfieri's 'piove e ripiove, came as perpetual a divine sunshine, such cloudless, exquisite weather that we ask whether it may not be June instead of November. Every day I am out walking while the golden oranges look at me over the walls, and when I am tired Robert and I sit down on a stone to watch the lizards.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)

Then after the first ten days of rain, which seemed to refer us fatally to Alfieri's 'piove e ripiove' came as perpetual a divine sunshine, such cloudless, exquisite weather that we ask whether it may not be June instead of November. Every day I am out walking while the golden oranges look at me over the walls, and when I am tired Robert and I sit down on a stone to watch the lizards.

George Saintsbury - A Letter Book: Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing