Rustico di Filippo. “Sonnet. Of the Making of Master Messerin.” Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1848?; 1861
abbaaccadefdef 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>DGR's <xref doc="a.1-1861.rad" from="xxix" to="xxx" workcode="3p-1861">note</xref> on this versatile Florentine poet, who worked in various styles, remains pertinent. Rustico was born around 1230 and died near the century's end, and he is best known for his comic and realistic verse, similar to the work of Cecco Angiolieri. The source text is <xref doc="a.pq4212.t86.rad" link="dead" from="225" workcode="140d-1861orig"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Poesie Italiane inedite</hi> (I. 225).

The subject of this caricature is Albizzo de' Caponsacchi (known as the Lord Messerin), who may have been the maternal uncle of Beatrice Portinari. The diction of the translation is effective but the opening quatrain's metrics, a kind of doggerel, weaken the sonnet. DGR would probably have done much better to have flattened the verse toward a prose rhythm of the kind one sees in so many of his other translations.

Textual History: Composition

The translation is probably an early one, late 1840s.

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The translation was first published in 1861 in <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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“Table of Poets” (in Early Italian Poets) I. xxix-xxx Contini, <hi rend="i">Poeti de Duecento</hi> , II. 353-365 Trucchi, <hi rend="i">Poesie Italiana inedite</hi> , I. 225

Early Italian Poets text Early Italian Poets text The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Fitzwilliam Proof Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Alderman annotated copy Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), Presentation Copy to Frederick Shields. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) (the Princeton illustrated copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo d'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) (Proof Copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Wrenn Proof Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Yale University Beinecke Library Proof Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100—1200—1300). Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1874 0 The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 2 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0