The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-03 00:00:00

And this is so obvious a cha

range of Italian p

sy that we wonder it should not at once

have occurred to Mr. Landor's mind. lie must have for-

gotten i

Rondinello, therefore, is inexcusable, because it
third lines

The adjectives in thi

not in the masculine gender

The fourth li

course,

should read " Rondinella ;" and" primiera

Premiero, we

beg to say, like Rondinello, is not an Italian wOrd! In this

fourth line

;o there is, strictly speaking, a syllable too

much : sei it is inharmonious, to overc

might have undergone elision

ser 1) with peculiar

The sixth lin

t is printed, has no definite mean

cause the regimen of the verb is wanting: vi sono means
' but

there are, _ hat are there? Why the passing birds
volanti palpitanti) Mr. Landor means to say ; but to have
been accurate, both in sense and grammar, he should have

written " ye ne

` how many, how many," referring to
arithmetical numbers ; but Mr. Landor intended to convey

inelegance) meat

the idea of " so many, so many," in the sense of an excla-
mation—(as the reader will perceive from the English ver-
sion, although the words there are " how many")—whicb, in
Italian, are rendered by " tanti e lanti." The addition of the

the line ;
elemental':

s difficulty

joined to the pronoun ire; the word then becomes ver,
which by syncopation is reduced to yen, and thus the prop

measure is preservei

The line, then, to read accuratel

must stand thus

'en sono lanti e Midi

Another curious error excited a smile as we observed it,
and no doubt our uninitiated as well as our initiated readers

Ile moment it is pointec

' tenuta"l

a pello" is not

[correctly
the endearment of pressing to the bosom
conveys tt

out. " Tenulo
Italian idiom for

On the contrary

" tenuto a petto
Mr. Landor, as the author of the lines, had been engaged in

omewhat original notion that

the maternal process of suckling the swath]
we apprehend, Mr. Landor had very little intention of pro-
pounding. The true rendering of " pressing to the bosom"
would have been " tenuto in petto"—to keep in the bosom.

n idea that,

perly perciO) is destitute of meaning unless the last syllable
be accented ; as printed, there would consequently appear to
be nothing to lead the reader to any inference deduced from
the preceding lines. The vowel in the article it would have
been better cut off, as in the case of the fourth line (sei '1),
in order to prevent the dissonance of sei 11—a combination
to he avoided, and which is avoided by the best Italian poets.
Then, again, with regard to sense, this concluding line seems
to involve an apparent contradiction. We discover, from the
English version, it was because the bird was the first he ever
" prest to his breast," that it should be his " own delight" ;

whilst, from the Italian version, we are told that the pc_.
delight was from his possession of it, and " tenuto a pettc
in his suckling of it. We do not take advantage of eith
conclusion ; but it appears to us that it would have beo
more rational to have made the Italian version say—whit
it does not, by any means—that the Rondinella itself cause
or excited the sense of pleasure in the poet's mind. We
would, therefore, prefer the concluding line to run some-

thing.like this—

Fa: to solail mio diletto

We offer t

rvations to Mr. Landor's attention wi
He is well knov

greatest'rest.

:t for his acquirements

'e extensively read in the literature of It