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                    <title level="doc">La Bella Mano (For a Picture)</title>
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                <author>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</author>
                
                
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                <copyright>© Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of
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                        <date compdate="1875">1875</date>
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                    <p>Like its <xref doc="a.34b-1875.texms.rad">companion text</xref>, the
                        condition of this manuscript suggestes it was written shortly after <xref doc="a.s240.rap">the painting</xref> was completed.</p>
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                    <head>Iconographic</head>
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                    <head>Printing History</head>
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                    <l n="1" r="">O <del>B</del>
                  <add>b</add>ella mano, che ti lavi e piaci</l>
                    <l n="2" indent="1" r="">In quel medesmo tuo puro elemento</l>
                    <l n="3" indent="1" r="">
                        <del>Da cui dapprima l' Amoroso Avvenuto.</del>
                  <add>Donde la Dea dell'amoroso avvento.</add>
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                    <l n="4" r="">
                        <del>Forse, e il mare ? accese in noi le faci.</del>
                  <add>Nacque, e dall'onda s'infuocar le faci</add>
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                    <l n="5" r="">Di mille inispegnebili fornaci:&#8212;</l>
                    <l n="6" indent="1" r="">Come a Venere a te l'ore e l'argento</l>
                    <l n="7" indent="1" r="">Offron gli Amori; e ognun riguarda attento</l>
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                        <del>La bocca che sorride e te che taci.</del>
                  <add>Quel labbro, sponda, ahime! di voce e baci</add>
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                    <l n="9" r="">Con dolce modo dove onor t'invii</l>
                    <l n="10" indent="1" r="">Vattene adorna, e porta insiem fra tante</l>
                    <l n="11" indent="1" r="">Di Venere e di virgine sembiante;</l>
                    <l n="12" r="">Umilemente in luoghi onesti e pii</l>
                    <l n="13" r="">Bianca e soave ognora; infin che sii,</l>
                    <l n="14" indent="1" r="">O Mano, mansueta in man d'amante.</l>
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