Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Notes, Historical Information, and Sonnets

Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Autumn - Sonnet Text

(Monet)

1. The peasant celebrates the pleasure of the happy harvest with dances and songs; and inflamed by the liquor of Bacchus, many end their rejoicing with sleep.
2. The mild pleasant air makes all abandon dance and song; this is the season that invites all to the sweet delights of peaceful sleep.
3. The hunters, at the break of dawn, set forth with horns, guns, and hounds. The animal flees, and they follow its tracks. Already frightened and tired by the great noise of guns and hounds, the wounded animal makes a weak attempt at fleeing, but is overcome and dies.

• Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Notes and Historical Information
• Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Spring - Sonnet Text
• Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Summer - Sonnet Text
• Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Autumn - Sonnet Text
• Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Winter - Sonnet Text