The Complete Poems by Guido Cavalcanti, translated by Marc Cirigliano, 69 pages
Guido Cavalcanti attained immortality not through his own work, but as a friend of Dante, who finds him in the Inferno among the gluttons. Cavalcanti, however, has also earned his own small group of discerning admirers.
you see me - one who goes crying
an example to all of Love's judgment
and i don't find a pitying heart
sigh even once looking at me
It is notoriously difficult to transfer the rhythm and rhyme of Romance languages into Germanic languages such as English - still, there must be a superior approach to this translation of the Sweet New Style into stale modernism.
look at him and see his heart
carried by Death's hand - carved into a cross.
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