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"Imitated [from Buondelmonte]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt14
    • Uniform Title: "Imitated [from Buondelmonte]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Lusit amicitiae interdum velatus amictu,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 150 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 316 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Florence in the autumn of 1740 and sent in a letter, dated 21 April 1741, to Richard West. First published, untitled, with the original Italian poem in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 115.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0076 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Imitated"
      • Date: 1741
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 139, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 62, 85; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 23
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "Imitated", together with a copy of the Italian original "Spesso Amor sotto la forma", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 139.

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