Some little-known and rarely-anthologized Elizabethan
gems are on loan to us from a
seldom-frequented underground chamber of the Vatican library, and are published
here for the first time, with appropriate musical and painterly accompaniment
In praise of Muses, and in time’s despite,
with
courtly music, and paintings of the time,
seek
many a rare and curious rhyme
for
thine own rare delight.
-- Anon, sixteenth century
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~ Posthumous Endorsement ~
"If I were alive
today, and in the mood for a mystery,
this is what I'd be
reading: "
(I am the Bard of Avon, and I approved this message.)
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Also, the most celebrated sonnet ever written in Latin, available here for the first time:A Lost Sonnet of St Augustine
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