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Document Title: [Notes for The Early Italian Poets]
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1860?
Type of Manuscript: draft
Scribe: DGR

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Manuscript Addition: 19
Editorial Description: Unknown notation in upper right corner, possibly by WMR
Manuscript Addition: Note for Early Italian Poets 1861, p.----
Editorial Description: WMR's note at top of page
more about Introduction to Part II
A. J. Ozanam—Documents

Inédits pour scrivi a l'histoire

littéraire de l'Italie.

(Paris. Lecoffue. 1850)
Dino's Intelligenza—309 stanzas

of in nona rima. In

Magliabeccian Library

at Florence—of a romantic

& allegorical nature with

romantic episodes.
more about Canzone (To Dante Alighieri). On the Death of Beatrice Portinari
  • Blessed the soul which when while
  • its flesh is furled
  • Within a shroud, from sorrow rejoicing
  • doth attain
  • To Heaven itself, made free &c
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Transcription Gap: Italian text (to be added later)
more about Introduction to Part II
La Santalena viene

dominata dal luogo

sul quale si batteva

questa moneta. Quest'

e' quell' isola dell'

archipelago situata

dirimpetto a Candia

la quale dai latini

fu detta Tiresia o

Theresia ed anticamente

Therasia; di poi nei

tempi bassi fu detta

dai naviganti Sant'Elena

e [?] oggi e' chiamata

Santorini.
Bonaggiunta described by

the commentator Benvenuto

d'Imola, as facilis inventor

rhythmorum sed facilior

viaorum.
La Chronica Fiorentina e

alcune Rime di D. Compagni

(Prato 1846).
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 1-1861.dukems.rad.xml
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