“My torments easy, full of sweet delight,
If this I could obtain,—that breast to breast
Thy bosom might receive my yielded sprite.”
O fortunati miei dolci martiri!
S'impetrerò che giunto seno a seno,
L'anima mia nella tua bocca io spiri.
Canto II, stanza 35 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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O fortunati miei dolci martiri! S'impetrerò che giunto seno a seno, L'anima mia nella tua bocca io spiri.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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