L'amabile Maria Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1836
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<artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>WMR says that he and DGR chanted this “<quote>extemporized effusion</quote>” when they “<quote>received notes from Maria.</quote>” He attributes the composition to DGR and suggests—incorrectly—that “<quote>These seem to be the first rhymes he ever concocted, and, if so, he rhymed in Italian earlier than in English</quote>” (see <xref doc="a.pr5246.a43.rad" workcode="1-1836">Memoir</xref> I page 58).</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>WMR says he found the verses copied out in one of his father's letters of September 1836.</p> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="translation"> <head>Translation</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p/> </section> </commentaries> <linenotes/> </profiledesc> <revisiondesc/> </ramheader> <readingtext> <xref doc="a.pr5246.a43.rad" workcode="1-1836" from="58">Memoir text</xref> </readingtext> <viewingimage/> <wclist> <wc fileid="a.pr5246.a43.rad.xml" anchor="" archivetype="rad" type="book" image=""> <title>Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Family-Letters with a Memoir (Volume One) William Michael Rossetti 1895 0