Guido Cavalcanti. “Sonnet (to Dante Alighieri). He mistrusts the Love of Lapo Gianni.” Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1861
abbaabbacdeedc iambic pentameter sonnet
<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>The poem continues upon the theme treated in the <xref doc="a.129d-1861.raw">previous sonnet</xref> in DGR's collection. DGR's source text, which was <xref doc="a.pq4299.c2.rad" from="11" workcode="127d-1861orig">Cicciaporci</xref> (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”).</p> <p>The translation follows the original rhyme scheme exactly.</p> <p/> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>Almost certainly an early translation, 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="343" workcode="127d-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. 546 Cassata, <hi rend="i">Guido Cavalcanti. Rime</hi> , 185-186

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