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To The READER:
Curteous Reader,
I Here present to thy view, a Work of that Excellent I∣talian Poet's, Torquato Tasso, Whose sweet and Melli∣fluous straines, made him not on∣ly esteem'd the Apollo of his
Aminta
About this Item
- Title
- Aminta
- Author
- Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for John Starkey, at the Miter, near the Middle Temple-gate in Fleet-street,
- 1660.
- Rights/Permissions
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- Subject terms
- Italian poetry
- Tasso, Torquato, -- 1544-1595. -- Aminta
- Cite this Item
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"Aminta." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A94684.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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Nation, but thought worthy that Honour by Frreign Wits. This is his Aminta; a Piece Valued by themost Refined Judge∣ments above all his other Po∣ems: and so much Valued, That the admired Baptista Guarini confesses himselfe its Imitator, in his Famous, and so much Adored Pastor Fido. If it have suffered by my Translati∣on, I am sorry. I must con∣fesse I envyed, but cannot fancy to have reach'd the Happinesse of Fanshaw's Stile. 'Tis the first Work ever I undertook, so, though there may be errors, condemn me not for the first fault, the
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next may be better; hower accept this, as it is, but Friendly, and I have enough.
J. D.