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[Permission to use this text has been kindly granted by Dr. Hilary Putnam — with profound thanks]


From The Works of Aretino, Translated into English from the original Italian, with a critical and biographical essay by Samuel Putnam, Illustrations by The Marquis de Bayros in Two Volumes; Pascal Covici: Chicago; 1926; Volume II., pp. 246-248.

[246]



A Black and White Lithograph of a painting by the Marquis de Bayros, of a nude woman standing by a harp taller than she is.  A man with black robes and a beard is behind her holding a scroll.  There is a cherub lying on the groun dholding the side of the bottom of the harp.








THE  SPORTIVE
SONNETS


[I Sonnetti Lussuriosi]











I must teach her the whole book of verse; line by
line, the . . . sonnets of Pietro Aretino.


from

The Very Pleasant Memoirs

of the

Marquis de Badomin




[248]
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[The Sportive Sonnets]






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