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“Introduction
to Part II” (in
Early Italian Poets)
189-193
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Foster and Boyde (text)
I.150-151
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Foster and Boyde (commentary)
II.247-248
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Early Italian Poets text
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Scholars remain puzzled to this day about the precise point of Forese's sonnet attacking Dante. He is responding to Dante's sonnet which ridicules Forese's family's poverty, but his poem appears to have a specific focus that no one has yet elucidated. DGR's translation remains close to the original, which he found in Luigi Fiacchi's Scelta di Rime Antiche (page 13).
Textual History: Composition
Probably a later translation, perhaps 1860. DGR's manuscript copy of the original Italian sonnet survives.
Printing History
The translation was first published in 1861 in The Early Italian Poets; it was reprinted unaltered in 1874 in Dante and his Circle.