“She tried to cry out: 'Will you, cruel man,
leave me alone here?' Pain choked off her cry,
and in her heart the plaintive words began
to echo in a yet more bitter sigh.”

—  Torquato Tasso

Volea gridar: dove, o crudel, me sola
Lasci? ma il varco al suon chiuse il dolore:
Sicchè tornò la flebile parola
Più amara indietro a rimbombar sul core.
Canto XVI, stanza 36 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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Volea gridar: dove, o crudel, me sola Lasci? ma il varco al suon chiuse il dolore: Sicchè tornò la flebile parola Più amara indietro a rimbombar sul core.

Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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