Included Text
LA PIA
- Ah! where on earth thy voice again is heard
- And thou from the long road hast rested thee,
- (After the second spirit said the third)
- Remember me whom am La Pia: Me
- Siena, me Maremma, made, unmade.
- He knoweth this thing in his heart,—even he
- With whose fair jewel I was ringed & wed.
Note: The title of the picture is inscribed on a cartouche at the bottom of the drawing. Along the side of the page is DGR's translation
of the passage from Dante's
Purgatorio.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This composition sketch is part of one of the notebooks preserved in the Duke University Library.
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