“Six days I rode, from morn to setting sun,
By horrid cliff, by bottom dark and drear;
And giddy precipice, where path was none.”
Sei giorni me n'andai matina e sera
Per balze e per pendici orride e strane,
Dove non via, dove sentier non era.
Canto II, stanza 41 (tr. William Stewart Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
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Sei giorni me n'andai matina e sera Per balze e per pendici orride e strane, Dove non via, dove sentier non era.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
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