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2	[[caption-width-right:831:Self portrait from 1847.]]
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5	->''"O Thou who at Love's hour ecstatically\
6	Unto my lips dost evermore present,\
7	Clothed with his fire, thy heart his testament;\
8	Whom I have neared and felt thy breath to be\
9	The inmost incense of his sanctuary;\
10	Who without speech hast owned him, and, intent\
11	Upon his will, thy life with mine hast blent,\
12	And murmured, "I am thine, thou'rt one with me!"\
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14	O what from thee the grace, for me the prize,\
15	And what to Love the glory,—when the whole\
16	Of the deep stair thou tread'st to the dim shoal\
17	And weary water of the place of sighs,\
18	And there dost work deliverance, as thine eyes\
19	Draw up my prisoned spirit to thy soul!"''
20	-->-- '''Dante Gabriel Rossetti''', ''Love's Testament''
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22	Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), better known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, artist, and translator. He, alongside William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, founded in 1848 the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, seeking to emulate what they saw as the direct and uncomplicated depiction of nature typical of Italian {{painting\|s}} before the High Renaissance in general and Raphael in particular, hence the name.
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24	Rossetti was born in London to Gabriele Rossetti, an exiled scholar from Vasto and founder of the Carbonari secret society, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Creator/JohnWilliamPolidori. He was the second of four children: Maria Francesca, the eldest, joined the Society of All Saints, an Anglican religious order, William Michael, the second youngest, became a writer and literary critic, and [[Creator/ChristinaRossetti Christina]], the youngest, became a poet in her own right. Gabriel was called such by his friends and family, but at an early stage of his professional career, he modified his name to "Dante Gabriel Rossetti" in honor of Creator/DanteAlighieri.
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