Speciosa

Speciosa seeds and seedlings that are true to name.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911

Noting the unfinished style and the imperfect rhyme of the Speciosa, Neale thought it indicated the work of an apprentice shaping his hand to the work of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The Speciosa contains thirteen (double) stanzas of six lines; the Dolorosa, ten.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

PACHEU, L'Auteur du 'Stabat in Revue du Clergé Français (Mar., 1904), 163 - 75, thinks the author is, in all probability, Jacopone, and that the Speciosa is not his, but probably the work of some humanist of the fifteenth century.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

There is an anonymous tr. of the Speciosa (Joy her tender breast expanding), quoted from The Catholic Magazine in The Rosary of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

FRANZ LISZT (the Speciosa, 182 - 5; the Dolorosa, 196 - 200); SHIPLEY adds others in Amer.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Speciosa "is attributed to Jacopone da Todi (1230-1306);" Adeste

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

The Anglican hymnologist, Dr.J. M. Neale, introduced the Speciosa to the English-speaking world in 1866, and ascribed it to Jacopone.

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He thought Jacopone had composed both Stabats at the same time; and remarking of the Dolorosa that "this incomparable work would have sufficed for the glory of Jacopone", he confesses that he gave up the attempt to translate the Speciosa in verse, and concluded to present both hymns in simple prose, because "the untranslatable charm of the language, of the melody, and of the old quaintness, I feel are escaping me".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Latin (John, xix, 25) "with reference to Mary at the Cross, but not at the Cradle", and also that the sixth line, "Pertransivit gladius", might have suggested the similar line of the Speciosa, "Pertransivit jubilus", but not vice versa.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913