S'io priego questa Donna, che pietade

Guido Cavalcanti?

General Description

Date: 1298?
Rhyme: ABBAABBACDEDCE
Meter: hendecasyllabics
Genre: sonnet

Bibliography

“Introduction to Part II” (in Early Italian Poets) I. 193-206

Cicciaporci 3

◦ Letterio Cassata, ed. Guido Cavalcanti. Rime Anzio 1993 98-100

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

See the commentary for DGR's translation of this sonnet, which DGR rather badly misrepresents (although his translation is, as poetry, rather fine).

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