The sonnet is a paradigm of the “praise of my lady” so
characteristic of the dolce stil novo as elaborated from the work of
Guinizzelli. DGR's text at line 8 is not accepted by Italian scholars (the received text
is “vostro bel vis'a tanto 'n sè volere”). The translation is fairly free
in the last tercet but the rhyme scheme of the original poem is preserved.
DGR's source text is
Probably an early translation, late 1840s. This is one of the few poems from DGR's volume of translations for which a manuscript survives: the
The translation was first published in 1861 in
The
Early Italian Poets
Dante
and his Circle
The Early Italian Poets)Poeti de Duecento
Guido Cavalcanti.
Rime