grayt.ead.0001-mss.0076Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0076#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt14Imitated [from Buondelmonte]Lusit amicitiae interdum velatus amictu,1775LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 150 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 316 (with English
prose translation)
Written at Florence in the autumn of 1740 and sent in a
letter, dated 21 April 1741, to Richard West.
First published, untitled, with the original Italian poem in Mason's
Memoirs (1775), 115.
mss.0076poems.lt14Imitated17411autograph fair copyLatin
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 139 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 62, 85Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 23
Autograph fair copy, headed
Imitated, together with a
copy of the Italian original Spesso Amor
sotto la forma,
in Gray's Commonplace
Book, vol. I, 139.