Not much is known of this early Siculo-Tuscan poet. DGR's
source text is Trucchi's
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For some reason DGR has not translated the third stanza of Ciuncio's
canzone. Otherwise the translation is fairly strict. It may well be that DGR was working from
another text, one not cited in his
Probably late 1840s or early 1850s.
The translation was first published in 1861 in
The
Early Italian Poets
Dante
and his Circle
Early Italian Poets)Poeti de Duecento
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