“Night in so sweet an attitude beheld Asleep, was by an angel sculptured In this stone; and sleeping, is alive; Waken her, doubter; she will speak to thee”

—  Giovan Battista Strozzi

Epigram for Michelangelo's ""la Notte""

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La Notte, che tu vedi in sì dolci atti Dormir, fu da un angelo scolpita In questo sasso, e perchè dorme ha vita: Destala, se nol credi, e parleratti

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