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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: himself that all this vision was a reality before him, we may feel that the sudden and subduing conviction forced itself on him that he had mistaken the true presentment of the principle of power which he worshipped, and that his genius should have had a different devotion. 360. I shall die first: on Wednesday, May 12, 1641. Within a few weeks the most severe consequences of his death to his children were mitigated. The King followed him to the scaffold January 30, 1649. Sordello Bordello is the story of a poet's inner development as affected by his social environment. The first step in this development is taken when the troubadour-knight, Sordello, awakes from the dream- life (described in Book I.) spent in the old castle and woods of Goito, during which he exerted his powers of imagination within himself and for his private pleasure, to feel that this lonely exercise is insufficient. The second step follows (described in Book II.), when suddenly brought into contact with the outside world at Palma's Court of Love, where he wins the crown from Eglamor; and thereafter exerting his powers over his fellows, as a minstrel in Mantua, he comes to find that his skill is insufficient to keep himself supreme, while he sways others for his own pleasure, so as to make them recognize in him the power behind his song; the attempt to assert himself through his poetry finally bringing himself and his art into utter conflict. The third step is taken when, after abandoning this self-confusing process, he seeks loneliness with nature at Goito once more, and determines (as described in Book in.) to experience life itself now instead of living merely for art's sake. Being summoned by Palma to Verona and a life of action, he resolves, under her inspiration, to make his art tributa...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217813990 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217813992 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $22.26 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 130 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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