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[Sumptuously Bound English Manuscript Translation of Sicilian Poetry]. The Courteous Fairy and the World. Two Poems of the Late John Meli in the Sicilian Dialect with biographical notes by the Abbe Contreras on the Author; and the Notes in the Second edition of His Works, to the Poem of The World. Freely Translated into English Verse by W. W. Barker.
Messina: 1815 to 1834. An unpublished manuscript English translation of Sicilian poet Giovanni Meli’s La Fata Galanti (The Courteous Fairy, 1762). Meli (1740-1815) was a physician and poet who wrote in his native dialect of Palermo and promoted and collected Sicilian literature. The Courteous Fairy, a satirical poem in.....