"[Farewell to Florence]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.lt08
• Uniform Title: "[Farewell to Florence]" [e-text]
• First Line: . . . oh Faesulae, amoena
• Language: Latin
• First Published: 1775
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 149-150 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 315 (with English prose translation)
• Summary: Written at Florence not later than 21 April 1741 and introduced "Eleven months, at different times, have I passed at Florence; and yet (God help me) know not either people or language. Yet the place and the charming prospects demand a poetical farewell, and here it is." Shortly before leaving Florence, Gray sent it in a letter of that date to Richard West. First published, untitled, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 115.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0062 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: 1741
  • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
  • Language: Latin
  • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, 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 48, 83; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 23
  • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 139.
  • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.