Giosuè Carducci,
Poems of Italy: selections from the Odes of Giosue Carducci…
(1889)
“ The glamour which the sun's "dying salutation" sheds on the grim towers and solemn church of dark-turreted Bologna, hangs like a golden haze over the whole poem; and in the last stanza one may feel the intensity of the poet's yearning for that antique beauty which has vanished with a vanished time. ”
