Niccolo Degli Albizzi was a Renaissance-era Italian poet from a noble Florentine family. Little is known of his life and few of his works survive, but D.G Rossetti, the pre-Raphaelite poet and eager promoter of Italian literature, included this week’s poem in his The Early Italian Poets anthology, published in 1861. Though it exceeds the fourteen-line restrictions of a sonnet, its rhyming scheme and sentiment are clearly indebted to the sonnet style popularised by Albizzi’s contemporary, Petrarch.
OperaGlass Works’ production of La Traviata will create an unrivalled sense of intimacy
The terrible twosome who founded OperaGlass Works will stop at nothing to attain their artistic purpose.
