 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 502 pages
...ence—characteristic of the best kind of Humanism—which he expressed in the inscription on his house at Ferrara :— Parva, sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta meo sed tamen acre, domus. And the same feeling of refined simplicity animates his poetical style. He writes in the... | |
 | Giosuè Carducci - 1905 - 558 pages
...anche ci lasciò memoria che sopra l' entrata della casa furono veramente inscritti i due bei versi : Parva, sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida; parta meo sed tamen aere domus (i). V'erano ancora ai giorni del Garofolo, il quale (2) gli recò in testimonianza contro... | |
 | Emma Boghen Conigliani - Italian literature - 1905 - 332 pages
...imitazione dai classici 1 Per questa sua casetta in contrada Mirasele scrisse l'epigramma : « Parva, sod apta mihi sed nulli obnoxia sed non « Sordida ; parta meo sed tamen aere domus. » latini esaltava ne' suoi versi, eran ben altro che eroi nella realtà: Alfonso I, valente... | |
 | Andrea Franzoni - Italian poetry - 1907 - 424 pages
...negli ultimi anni di sua vita. È nota la iscrizione che il Poeta vi fece scolpire sul prospetto : « Parva, sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non sordida ; parta meo sed tanicn aere domus ». Ora essa è mèta di reverente pellegrinaggio a chi visiti la città. Litigoni,... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy) - 1908 - 424 pages
...epic. The amiable poet made no great fortune. But he was able to build this house for himself — " Parva sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta meo sed tamen sere domus." So, in the Latin distich, inscribed on the fafade, the poet described the history and... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - South America - 1911 - 608 pages
...it as did Ariosto the little house wherein he polished the verses which have rendered him immortal : "Parva sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta meo sed tamen sere domus. ' ' * Here, in a blessed solitude that would have delighted the heart of a St. Bruno, or... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Italy - 1913 - 924 pages
...since 1811. It contains a few mementoes of Ariosto and bears the inscription, composed by himself: 'Parva, sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta meo sed tamen aere domus.' A Statue of Ariosto by Franc. Vidoni, on a lofty column in the Piazza Ariostea (PL E,... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1914 - 154 pages
...wine he could not drink ; his usual habit was one meal a day, which he 1 Panizzi, op. cit. p. lii : Parva, sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta MEO sed tamen AERE domus. The " meo aere" was meant to tell to all men that the house was not the gift of a patron.... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Great Britain - 1917 - 648 pages
...building of the cottage at Dockett Eddy was begun, over the door of which he set this inscription : " Parva sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta meo sed tamen sere, domus."* This was to be always his riverside home, and in it he always slept, even after the... | |
 | Kazimierz Chłedowski - Art - 1921 - 624 pages
...in der dort errichteten Grotte seine Gedichte. Über seiner Tür ließ er die Inschrift anbringen. Parva sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta meo sed tamen aere domus. Und da ihm das Dichten leicht fiel, wurde gleich noch ein zweiter Vers angebracht: Piccola,... | |
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Parva sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta meo sed tamen aere domus. 
