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We have already published some of Shakespeare's sonnets translated by Gabbrielli in the volume on Elizabethan Authors . Gabbrielli completes his work in this book, offering us a translation of all 154 sonnets, with parallel text. 
It is a chance to discover a less popular aspect of the great poet and dramatist, who writes into his plays all his humanity, so that his characters have never faded through the centuries, and have been re-read in "modern" interpretations in all periods, without having to change the original text; into these verses Shakespeare puts his personal story and feelings, without hiding them behind the mask of Othello or of Banquo. And his personal feelings are as lasting as his characters, sincere and recognizable in love, in jealousy, in the sadness of growing old, in the fear of failure, as near to us as to his Elizabethan readers.
Gabbrielli's translation has been a patient and dedicated work, starting with those already published, but that, in his own words, " the sonnets have the power of cherries, so that one has pulled the next after it, until I'd finished them all ."
And it's a just observation on the sonnets, but also on Shakespeare's work in general, for it's not easy to put it down until you've read it to the end.

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