MARTEN MILOS: (1883-1917)
MARTEN MILOS: (1883-1917) Czech poet, literature reviewer, translator and writer. A charming A.L.S., Milos Marten, two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), small 8vo, Ujezd, Prague, 30th October 1909, to Paolo Buzzi (´Monsieur et cher confrère´), in French. Marten sends thanks and expresses his sincere admiration to Buzzi for the inspiration his verses have provided, remarking ´Ils contiennent vraiment le souffle d´une énergie nouvelle, ils debordent d´une sensibilite jeune, ardente, puissante´ (Translation: ´They truly embody the spirit of a new energy; they overflow with a youthful, ardent and powerful sensibility´) and further adding ´En les lisant je me rassure, Monsieur, car je sens que de tels "fons" tout en detrnisant quelque région morte de la paralysie savront s´augenouiller devant un Vinci et q´au lieu de choquer nos aeroplanes mons les dirigerons vers la même.....celui de la Beauté dont la pourpre jaillit de noter âme´ (Translation: ´Reading them reassures me, Sir, for I sense that such ‘souls’, whilst shattering some region deadened by paralysis, will know how to kneel before a da Vinci and that, rather than crashing our aeroplanes, they will steer them towards the same destination… that of Beauty, whose crimson bursts forth from our souls´). Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Marten. VG
Paolo Buzzi (1874-1956) Italian futurist playwright and poet who published Aeroplani in 1909.
MARTEN MILOS: (1883-1917) Czech poet, literature reviewer, translator and writer. A charming A.L.S., Milos Marten, two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), small 8vo, Ujezd, Prague, 30th October 1909, to Paolo Buzzi (´Monsieur et cher confrère´), in French. Marten sends thanks and expresses his sincere admiration to Buzzi for the inspiration his verses have provided, remarking ´Ils contiennent vraiment le souffle d´une énergie nouvelle, ils debordent d´une sensibilite jeune, ardente, puissante´ (Translation: ´They truly embody the spirit of a new energy; they overflow with a youthful, ardent and powerful sensibility´) and further adding ´En les lisant je me rassure, Monsieur, car je sens que de tels "fons" tout en detrnisant quelque région morte de la paralysie savront s´augenouiller devant un Vinci et q´au lieu de choquer nos aeroplanes mons les dirigerons vers la même.....celui de la Beauté dont la pourpre jaillit de noter âme´ (Translation: ´Reading them reassures me, Sir, for I sense that such ‘souls’, whilst shattering some region deadened by paralysis, will know how to kneel before a da Vinci and that, rather than crashing our aeroplanes, they will steer them towards the same destination… that of Beauty, whose crimson bursts forth from our souls´). Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Marten. VG
Paolo Buzzi (1874-1956) Italian futurist playwright and poet who published Aeroplani in 1909.
