On his travels through Sweden and Finland, Giuseppe Acerbi arrived in Finnish Turku in late March 1799. There he met Franz Michael Franzén, a poet and clergyman and later professor and member of the Royal Swedish Academy, who introduced him the Finnish poem »Jos mun tuttuni tulisi« and his French translation of it. Acerbi was very impressed by the poem. This is what he wrote about it:
»This little piece, considered as the production of a girl who could neither write nor read, is a wonderful performance. It is nature's poet delivering the dictates of her heart in the words which love has suggested, and 'snatching a grace beyond the reach of art.' This Finnish Sappho, amidst all the snows of her ungenial climate, discovers all the warmth of the poetess of Lesbos.«
Three years later, the poem together with Franzén's slightly altered translation was published in Acerbi's 1802 book »Travels through Sweden, Finland and Lapland to the North Cape in the years 1798 and 1799«.
This is the oldest printed version of the poem. First written down in Rantsila in the Finnish region of Northern Ostrobothnia in the latter half of the 18th century, it was published for the first time by Henrik Gabriel Porthan in the 4th part of his 1778 thesis »De poësi fennica«.
Giuseppe Acerbi (1773 - 1846), an Italian naturalist and explorer, was the one who made the poem internationally known by including it in his 1802 book »Travels through Sweden, Finland and Lapland to the North Cape in the years 1798 and 1799«. The poem is also included in another description of the same journey, »Voyage pittoresque au Cap du Nord«, written by Anders Fredrik Skjöldebrand (1757 - 1834), a Swedish count, general and statesman, who joined Acerbi in Stockholm for the expedition through Finland.
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Interprétation : Massimiliano Larocca
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