Dante at Verona (corrected holograph manuscript, Delaware Art Museum) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Digital images courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Collection. Untitled ["Dante at Verona"] Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1880 (circa) corrected holograph copy in ink This is an addition to the poem, "Dante at Verona" made on a small scrap of paper. DGR DGR Delaware Art Museum, Bancroft Collection Purchased in 1894 from Dodd, Mead and Co. Unlined writing paper, 18 x 11.5 cm. Watermarked Commentary
Introduction

The manuscript is a scrap on which DGR has written one of the additions to the poem "Dante at Verona" that he made for its 1881 publication in the volume <xref doc="a.1-1881.1stedn.rad" workcode="1-1848.s55"> <hi rend="i">Poems. A New Edition</hi> </xref> . The manuscript was probably produced in 1880.

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There is a printer's note by DGR at the top of the MS. The prose note to the text is cancelled at the bottom of the page and rewritten by DGR, presumably to make the script clearer. Received line 299 was begun at the left margin (the word "So" is visible), then blotted out and begun again as an indented line. for page 223 Note to the printer. A plus sign, the numeral '1' enclosed in a circle, and a check mark are to the right of DGR's note. They appear to have been written at the same time as the note and are presumably in his hand. Untitled Two stanzas to be added to the longer poem Also a tale is told, how once, At clearing tables after meat, Heaped Piled for a jest at Dante's feet Were found the dinner's well-picked bones; So laid, to please the banquet's lord, By one who crouched beneath the board. Then smiled Can Grande to the rest:— “Our Dante's tuneful mouth indeed Lacks not the gift on flesh to feed!” “Fair host of mine,” replied the guest, “So many bones you'd not descry If so it chanced the dog were I.” *

* “Messere, voi non vedreste tant 'ossa se cane io fossi” . Thepoint of the reproach is difficult to render, depending as it doeson the literal meaning of the name Cane.

Messere, voi non vedreste tant 'ossa se cane io fossi .The point of the reproach is difficultto render in English, depending as itdoes on the literal meaning of theword & name Cane.