Sonnets of St. Philip Neri
The three sonnets of St. Philip Neri (1515-1595) preserved by Bacci: the soul made by God and imprisoned on earth, the love that changes the lover into the beloved, and the sonnet to Bernardino. The Italian is Capecelatro’s text from the Documents of his Life; for the first two the English is the verse translation by the Rev. H. I. D. Ryder, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory, as printed by Antrobus. The third has no freely available English translation.
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Source: The three sonnets, OCR corrected by hand and by comparison with Antrobus. Two further sonnets and a fragment found after Bacci are not in a free text and are left out. · Sonnets I and II only.