Yet, despite—or perhaps because of—this lack of conventional beauty, the speaker’s love for her is sincere, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. This sonnet can also be interpreted as a ...

and thus her own happiness. The poems traded between Speranza and Giulia are brighter, exhibiting an abundance of love and admiration. In one pair of sonnets, written playfully yet impressively ...

TheSonnetshave an immediate appeal as beautiful poetry; but to anyone interested in the personality and mental life of the poet, they derive added value from their progressive mirroring over thirty ...