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Correggio

A Tragedy

Martin, Theodore (1816-1909)

CORREGGIO

And in this cry they were joined by Goethe. Introductory Notice.—Page vi.

To Goethe.

Ah, so! A sweet repentant Magdalen.—Page 6.

You make the infant like a glowworm shine.—Page 11.

And artists now are held in such repute, That even the nieces of the cardinals Scarce serve them for their wives.—Page 16.

There at the tombs I stood of Julius, and Lorenzo, and those forms immortal saw, The Day, the Night, the Twilight, and the Dawn Of Michael Angelo, in pure white marble.—Page 48.

You have seen many of his pieces there In the saloon; his Leda, Danaë.—Page 68.

And I—although the Pope would make me paint, &c.—Page 72.

This is the Saint Cecilia!—Page 90.

The chaplet now is in its proper place.—Page 106.

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What gain to thee the charming Fornarina?—Page 96.

Thou from thy mother didst inherit them, And she from hers, &c.—Page 123.

How gladsomely the green smiles forth on me, Like hope from out the blue eternity.—Page 124.

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The chaplet now is in its proper place.—Page 106.

Oehlenschläger mentions in his Autobiography, that the incident of crowning Antonio was suggested to him by his being caught by a branch in the manner described by Celestina in the text, in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, while meditating how to

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compensate Correggio for the wound caused to his feelings by the unworthy project of Ottavio. ‘Never shall I forget,’ he says, ‘how, when I was reading the play to my Danish friends in Rome, and Christel Riepenhausen at the passage where Celestina crowns Correggio said, in a cool and indifferent way—‘Hm, that is pretty!’ Thorwaldsen started up, looked at him with flashing eyes, and exclaimed, ‘No, that is grand!’—Selbst-Biographie, Vol. ii., p. 151. Breslau. 1839.