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                <title>La Bella Mano (For a Picture) (Delaware fair copy)</title>
                <author>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</author>
                
                
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                    <title>La Bella Mano (per un Quadro)</title>
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                        <date compdate="1875">1875</date>
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                <head>Commentary</head>
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                    <head>Introduction</head>
                    <p>This is one of three surviving manuscripts of the Italian sonnet, two of which&#8212;including this one&#8212;are fair 
                    copies.  This copy has an alternative reading for line 3.</p>
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                    <head>Reception History</head>
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                <note>Variation for line 8 written at bottom; it's placement indicated with an &#8220;X&#8221; in the left margin.</note>
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               <title>La Bella Mano<lb/>(per un quadro.)</title>
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                    <l n="1">O bella Mano, che ti lavi e piaci</l>
                    <l n="2" indent="1">Ne quel medesmo tuo puro elemento</l>
                    <l n="3" indent="1">Donde la Dea dell'amoroso avvento</l>
                    <l n="4">Nacque, (e dall'onda s'infuocar le faci</l>
                    <l n="5">Di mille inispegnibili fornaci):&#8212;</l>
                    <l n="6" indent="1">Come a Venere a te l"oro e l'argento</l>
                    <l n="7" indent="1">Offron gli Amori; e ognun riguarda attento</l>
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                  <del>Quel labbio, sponda, ahime! di voce e baci.</del>
                        <add>La bocca che sorride e te che taci.</add>
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                <lg n="2">
                    <l n="9">In dolce modo dove onor t'invii</l>
                    <l n="10" indent="1">Vattene adorna, e porta insiem fra tante</l>
                    <l n="11" indent="1">Di Venere e di vergine sembiante;</l>
                    <l n="12">Umilemente in luoghi onesti e pii</l>
                    <l n="13">Bianca e soave ognora; infin che sii,</l>
                    <l n="14" indent="1">O Mano, mansueta in man d'amante.</l>
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