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With all the care he bestowed on his task, he overlooked one fearful perversion in the concluding stanza, which in all editions but the Milanese reads thus: Mentre ch 'io canto, ahimè Dio redentore ...
Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825
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Lodovico Caracci exhibits a _testa del redentore_ beyond all praise, uniting every excellence, and expressing every perfection; where, in the deluge represented by Bonati, one sees the eagle drooping from a weight of rain, majestic in his distress, and looking up to the luminous part of the picture as if hoping to discover some ray of that sun he never shall see again.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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"Non si deve adunque lasciar passare questa occasione, acciocchè la Italia vegga dopo tanto tempo apparire un suo redentore.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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