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Excerpt from Sonnets From Venice Of the one hundred and seven sonnets which appear in the complete editions of Platen's works, the seven teen constituting the Somtte aw Vmedig not merelyform the longest series, but contain the best of Platen's work. Robertson calls them without qualification the finest collection of sonnets in the German tongue. Of these sonnets the first fourteen (in the order as given here) were written during a two months' stay in Venice in 1824, being completed in November; and in his Tagebuch for the twenty-seventh of February of the year following Goethe records Venetian son nets of Count Platen, found praiseworthy They were first printed at Erlangen in the latter year. The last three sonnets were added at a somewhat later date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.