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“Introduction
to Part II” (in
The Early Italian Poets),
193-206
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Contini,
Poeti de Duecento,
II. 531
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Cassata,
Guido Cavalcanti.
Rime, 143-144
This collection contains 10 texts and images, including:
Early Italian Poets text
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The poem is an important text illustrating the Neo-Platonic idea of the unity of all forms of love—an idea as central to the early Italian tradition as to DGR's work. Cavalcanti's sonnet was written sometime in the late 1280s when he was on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
DGR varies the rhyme scheme somewhat but stays quite close to the sense of the original Italian. His source text was Cicciaporci (Sonnet XII, page 7).
Textual History: Composition
Probably early, late 1840s.
Printing History
The translation was first published in 1861 in The Early Italian Poets; it was reprinted in 1874 in Dante and his Circle.