Selected Poems of Pierre de Ronsard (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Pierre De Ronsard
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331750614
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Excerpt from Selected Poems of Pierre De Ronsard If the traveller is on his way north from Venice, where, at the cost of a morning spent in a gondola, you may see all the architecture of the world displayed in a crowded, im possible pageant between sea and heaven, and where you retreat breathless from Veronese only to be blinded by Titian, he will probably be distressed by the formal beauties of the great castles of the Touraine the last flourishes of the Flamboyant in the church of Brou will seem to him the artifice of a style grown too old to possess natural graces; domestic architecture will be either neat without simplicity or grandiose without dignity. But if he returns from F lorence, the inevitable revulsion, the sense of some light lost from the sky or dreamy loveliness from the earth, will be less strong in him; he will observe that behind the brier-like luxuriance of the Flamboyant style no less than amid the urbane splendours of the great Chateaux there is a latent quality that he will have dimly realized to be present in all Florentine art before Michelangelo, - a tranquil strength, a restrained rhythm of line. The tree may glow with a thousand flowers, but the dark, sinewy boughs are beneath them, defiant of time and the winds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.