THE TWENTY - FOUR LOVE SONNETS LOUISE LABE EUPHORION 1950 Translator F. LOBB
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THE TWENTY-FOURLOVE SONNETSby LOUISE LABE (1525-1566)La Bell Cordiere
Translated by FRANCES LOBBPublished by EUPHORION BOOKS, London : 1950The great theme of her sonnets are the longings, torments and satisfactions of a passionate love which, however noble, is very much of this world, with no metaphysical concepts evoked and no references to a more perfect world than this one. The twenty four love sonnets published here, composed in Italian and old French, are translatedby Frances... Lobb, shown on the facing page of the original compositions. Their great theme of the longings, torments and satisfactions of passionate loveshow her to be 'ahead of her time' in such expressions through women's writing.
Bound in dusky pink card covers measuring 18cm x 12cm.57 pages, all in excellent condition, clean, no marks, no tares, no creases, binding tight and free from inscriptions.
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