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“Introduction
to Part II” (in
The Early Italian Poets),
193-206
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Contini,
Poeti de Duecento,
II. 546
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Cassata,
Guido Cavalcanti.
Rime, 185-186
This collection contains 10 texts and images, including:
The Early Italian Poets text.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The poem continues upon the theme treated in the previous sonnet in DGR's collection. DGR's source text, which was Cicciaporci (Sonnet XXI, page 11), has an interesting variant reading at line 11, which in Cicciaporci reads “perduta” whereas the authorized received reading is the much less shocking: “renduta” (“served” instead of “lost”).
The translation follows the original rhyme scheme exactly.
Textual History: Composition
Almost certainly an early translation, 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.