Luciano Rebay - Introduction to Italian Poetry: A Dual-Language Book

SAN FRANCESCO DASSISI (p. 6): detail of fresco by Simone Martini in the Lower Church at Assisi.

LA COMPIUTA DONZELLA (p. 12): no known portrait; illustration shows panorama of Florence in the fourteenth century, a detail from the fresco The Madonna of Mercy in the Loggia del Bigallo, Florence; Alinari photo.

GUIDO CAVALCANTI (p. 16): no authentic portrait found; illustration shows a canzone of Cavalcanti in Manuscript 1094 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence; photo courtesy of Biblioteca Riccardiana.

CECCO ANGIOLIERI (p. 20): no known portrait; illustration shows the sonnet Si fosse foco, arderei I mondo in Manuscript 1103 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence; photo courtesy of Biblioteca Riccardiana.

DANTE ALIGHIERI (p. 24): detail of fresco by Giotto, in the Bargello. Florence.

FRANCESCO PETRARCA (p. 34): manuscript miniature, about 1400,

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO (p. 40): illumination from a fourteenth-century manuscript (Codex 38) in the Bibliothque Nationale, Paris.

FRANCO SACCHETTI (p. 46): no authentic portrait found; illustration shows the caccia Passando con pensier per un boschetto in the autograph manuscript of Sacchettis Rime (MS Ashburnhamiano 574) in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenzi-ana, Florence; photo courtesy of Biblioteca Medicea Laurenzi-ana.

LORENZO DE MEDICI (p. 52): painting by Giorgio Vasari in the Uffizi, Florence.

ANGELO POLIZIANO (p. 60): detail of fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio in the Chiesa di S. Trinita, Florence; Alinari photo.

LUDOVICO ARIOSTO (p. 66): engraving by Enea Vico of Parma.

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (p. 74): anonymous engraving.

FRANCESCO BERNI (p. 80): engraving by G. Mari after a portrait by G. Longhi.

TORQUATO TASSO (p. 84): painting by A. Allori in the Uffizi, Florence.

GIAMBATTISTA MARINO (p. 92): engraving by F. Valerio; photo courtesy of Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice.

UGO FOSCOLO (p. 96): anonymous engraving.

GIACOMO LEOPARDI (p. 102): pencil portrait from life by Lolli, 1826.

GABRIELE DANNUNZIO (p. 110): from a photograph.

GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI (p. 120), EUGENIO MONTALE (p. 130) and SALVATORE QUASIMODO (p. 140): photos courtesy of Arnoldo Mondadori, Editore, Milan.

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