De Vere’s Lucrece and Romano’s Sala di Troia
Michael Delahoyde To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stell’d. Many she sees where cares have carvéd some, But none where all distress and dolour dwell’d Till she despairing Hecuba beheld . . . Lucrece (1441-45) Shakespeare’s two long narrative poems, despite their original popularity in the […]
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