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Sestine

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Ses´tine
n.1.See Sextain.


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16) A conferire al testo una struttura circolare sono i due distici, a rima bacia ta, posti in apertura ed in chiusura, in una poesia che comprende altre due quartine e altrettante sestine.
Si tratta di una raccolta di 366 componimenti lirici in lingua volgare, comprendenti 317 sonetti, 29 canzoni, 9 sestine, 7 ballate e 4 madrigali suddivisi in due parti, 263 piu 103, che nonostante quanto indicato nel primo sonetto, che vuole presentarli come il frutto del suo giovanile errore, furono in verita composti lungo l'intero arco della sua vita.
Endimione unfolds as a carefully organized sequence of 214 sonnets, twenty canzoni, five sestine, five ballate, and three madrigals.
 
 
 
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