This poem is taken from PN Review 36, Volume 10 Number 4, March - April 1984.
Il Palazzo della Ragione
Passing the central Palace (called 'of Reason')
In Padua, daily I'd contemplate,
High on one wall among begrimed inscriptions,
Leaning as from a window, a gentleman
In Quattrocento costume - with a turban.
He smiles across distance, his hand raised in greeting.
Smiling as if at me, to bid me welcome
To a city, enlightened and humane,
...
In Padua, daily I'd contemplate,
High on one wall among begrimed inscriptions,
Leaning as from a window, a gentleman
In Quattrocento costume - with a turban.
He smiles across distance, his hand raised in greeting.
Smiling as if at me, to bid me welcome
To a city, enlightened and humane,
...
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