"Amate" Quotes from Famous Books
... rhyme, 'sotto le amate fronde,' is borrowed from the 23rd canto of the 'Paradiso.' In the second line, 'Stellato ammanto' is Claudian's 'stellantes sinus' applied to the heaven. When we reach the garden of Venus we find whole passages translated from Claudian's 'Marriage of ... — Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds |