Saturday, June 28, 2014

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow plaque, piazza Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Plaque honoring Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Piazza Santa Maria Novella
Florence, April 2014

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 - 1882
American poet
master of the Neo-Latin languages
translator of The Divine Comedy
amid the Florentine dwellings
received this
in the Square that was called
“The Mecca of expatriates”
)

1 comment:

Revrunner said...

One of the few poets whose poems I enjoy.