Guido Cavalcanti. “Sonnet (to Bernardo da Bologna). He answers Bernardo, commending Pinella, and saying that the Love he can offer her is already shared by many noble Ladies.” Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1848?; 1861
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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>This sonnet responds to the <xref doc="a.99d-1861.raw">one</xref> addressed to Cavalcanti by Bernardo da Bologna. The subject of each is, as so often in Cavalcanti's work, the respective power and relation of love and poetry.</p> <p>The rhyme scheme follows the source text in <xref doc="a.pq4299.c2.rad" from="8" workcode="124d-1861orig">Cicciaporci</xref> (Sonnet XV, page 8). The translation, which is quite free in several places, nonetheless captures very well the <hi rend="i">esprit</hi> of the original. Certain extremely witty effects in Cavalcanti remain, however, virtually untranslatable (in particular Cavalcanti's several variational rhymes on Bernardo's equivalent lines).</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>Probably late 1840s.</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>The translation was first published in 1861 in <xref doc="a.1-1861.rad" from="354" workcode="124d-1861"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">The Early Italian Poets</hi> ; it was reprinted in 1874 in <hi rend="i">Dante and his Circle</hi> .

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“Introduction to Part II” (in The Early Italian Poets), 193-206 Contini, <hi rend="i">Poeti de Duecento</hi> , II. 552-553 Cassata, <hi rend="i">Guido Cavalcanti. Rime</hi> , 200-203

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