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by Folgore da San Geminiano (flourished 1309-1317)
Translation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

Settembre
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Di settembre vi do diletti tanti:
falconi, astori, smerletti, sparvieri;
lunghe, gherbegli, geti con carnieri,
brachette con sonagli, pasto e guanti;
bolz' e balestre dritt' e ben portanti,
archi, strali, ballotte e ballottieri;
síanvi mudati guilfanghi ed astieri
nidaci e di tutt' altri uccel volanti,
che fosser buoni da snidar e prendere:
e l'un a l'altro tuttavia donando,
e possasi rubar, e non contendere,
quando con altra gente rincontrando;
la vostra borsa si' acconcia a spendere,
e tutti abbiate l'avarizia in bando.

Text Authorship:

  • by Folgore da San Geminiano (flourished 1309-1317), "Settembre", appears in Sonetti dei mesi, no. 10

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-04-22
Line count: 14
Word count: 82

September
 (Sung text for setting by C. Ives)
 See original
Language: English  after the Italian (Italiano) 
And in September,  ... 
  falcons, astors astors, merlins, sparrow-hawks;
  Decoy-birds that  ...  lure your game in flocks;
And hounds with bells; crossbows shooting out of sight;
  Arblasts and javelins;  ... 
   ...  all birds the best to fly;
  And each to each of you shall be lavish still 
  In gifts; and robbery find no gainsaying;
And if you meet with travellers going by,
  Their purses from your purse's flow shall fill;
And Avarice be the only outcast thing.

Composition:

    Set to music by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "September", 1920, published 1921 [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882), "September", appears in The Early Italian Poets, in Of the Months, first published 1861

Based on:

  • a text in Italian (Italiano) by Folgore da San Geminiano (flourished 1309-1317), "Settembre", appears in Sonetti dei mesi, no. 10
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-15
Line count: 14
Word count: 117

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