Non vi si monta per iscala d'oro

Dino Compagni

General Description

Date: 1300 (circa)
Rhyme: abbaabbacdcdcd
Meter: hendecasyllabics
Genre: sonnet

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

See DGR's translation for commentary on this interesting sonnet and DGR's striking translation of it. DGR's source text was the 1831 edition of Giovanni Crescimbeni's L'istoria della volgar poesie (vol. 3 p. 117).

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