Synopsis
Raphael Mid-nineteenth century work from the French writer, poet and politician, whose political efforts contributed to the abolition of slavery and the death penalty. Full description
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Raphael We often called him so in sport, because in his bho Mhe much resembled a youthful poitrait of Raphael, which may be seen in the Barberini gallery at Rome, at the Pitti palace in Florence, and at the Museum of the Lcmvre. We had given him the name, too, because the distinctive feature of this youths character was his lively sense of the Beautiful in nature and art; a sense so keen, that his mind was, so to speak, qierely the shadowing forth of the ideal or material beauty scattered throughout the works of God and man. This feeling was the result f Abis exquisite and almost morbid sensibilitymmorbid, at least, until time had somewhat blunted it. We would soinetimes, in allusion to those who, from their ardent longings to re visit their country, are called home-sick, say that he was heaveniek, and he would smile, and say that we were riht. This love of tbe Beautiful made him unhappy; in another aituation it might have rendered him illustrious. Had he held a pencil he would have painted the Virgin of Foligno; as a sculptor, be would have chiseled the Psyche of Canova; had he known the language in which sounds are written, he would have noted the atrial lament of the sea-breeze sighing among the fibero of Italian pines, or the breathing of a sleeping girl who dreams of one she will not name; had he been a poet, he would have written the stanzas of Tassoa Brmimay the moonlight talk of Shakapeare s Bjomeo tmd Juliet, or Byron sportrait of Haidee, He loved the Good as well as the Beautiful; but he loved not virtue for its holiness, he loved h; for its beauty. He would have been aspiring in imagination, although he was not ambitious by character.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
It is all very well for Lamartine to explain in his original prologue, that the touching, fascinating and pathetic story of Eaphael was the experience of another man. It is well known that these feeling pages are but transscripts of an episode of his own heart-history. That the tale is one of almost feminine sentimentality is due, in some measure, perhaps, to the fact that, during his earliest and most impressionable years, Lamartine was educated by his mother and was greatly influenced by her ardent and poetical character. Who shall say how much depends on ones environment during these tender years of childhood, and how often has it not been proved that the child is father to the man? The marvel of it is that a man so exquisitely sensitive, of such extraordinary delicacy of feeling, should have been able, in later years, to stand the storm and stress of political life and the grave responsibilities of statesmanship. Although not written in metrical form, Eaphael is really a poem a prose poem. Never upon canvas of painter were spread more delicate tints, hues, colors, shadings, blendings and suggestions, than in these pages. Not only do we find ourselves, in the descriptions of scenery, near to Nature Bheart, but, in the story itself, near to the heart of man, A ix in Savoy was, in Lamartine stime, a fashionable resort for valitudinarians and invalids. A mong the patrons of the place was Madame Charles, whose memory Lamartine
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