O age! Here’s something new
Credits
Judah Sommo, “O age! Here’s something new” (Poem, Mantua, 16th Century). Published in: Dvora Bregman, Tseror zehuvim sonetim ʻIvriyim mi-tekufat ha-Renesans veha-Barok ( Bundle of gold Hebrew sonnets from the Renaissance and the Baroque) (Jerusalem: Ben Tzvi Institute, 1997), p. 87 (no. 51).
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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