“O heavenly Muse, that not with fading bays
Deckest thy brow by the Heliconian spring,
But sittest crowned with stars' immortal rays
In Heaven, where legions of bright angels sing;
Inspire life in my wit, my thoughts upraise,
My verse ennoble, and forgive the thing,
If fictions light I mix with truth divine,
And fill these lines with other praise than thine.”

O Musa, tu, che di caduchi allori
Non circondi la fronte in Elicona,
Ma su nel Cielo infra i beati cori
Hai di stelle immortali aurea corona;
Tu spira al petto mio celesti ardori,
Tu rischiara il mio canto, e tu perdona
S'intesso fregj al ver, s'adorno in parte
D'altri diletti, che de' tuoi le carte.
Canto I, stanza 2 (tr. Edward Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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O Musa, tu, che di caduchi allori Non circondi la fronte in Elicona, Ma su nel Cielo infra i beati cori Hai di stelle immortali aurea corona; Tu spira al petto mio celesti ardori, Tu rischiara il mio canto, e tu perdona S'intesso fregj al ver, s'adorno in parte D'altri diletti, che de' tuoi le carte.

Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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