Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica

Sentiments is Michael Colavito's monument to the memories, both happy and sad, which have shaped his life. The dreams, the aspirations, the loves, the fantasies, all combine to form a dynamic reason that enables Mr. Colavito to fall in love with all aspects of life, intensely so, adding the aromatic flavors of feeling to his verses--verses that always begin and end with love. Sentiments is a self portrait of the Poet. The delineations he cherishes, the nuances in which he glories: a child's smile, a ray of the sun, a pretty face, and always love:

The shorter English version is extant only as a fragment of 308 lines in a MS. at Vale Royal, and was edited by R.C.N. (i.e. R.C. Nichols) for the Roxburghe Club, London, 1873. The MS. is stated by editor to have been written about 1450. After relating Partinope's arrival in the enchanted city and his meeting with Melior, the text, without any break, proceeds to the morning of the third day of tournament, 1. 277 corresponding to 1. 10811 of the other version. As all attempts at seen the MS. have proved unsuccessful, it has been reprinted from the Roxburghe Club edition. The facsimile of...