Jacopo da Lentino. “Sonnet. Of his Lady in Heaven.”

Jacopo da Lentino. “Sonnet. Of his Lady in Heaven.” Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1848?; 1861 <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 efforts to develop a spare and simple style are splendidly realized in this translation of the famous Italian original by Giacomo da Lentini. The poet's exact dates are not known but he flourished in the early thirteenth-century and was a leading figure in the court of Frederick II, where the Sicilian School emerged from an enthusiasm for provencal poetry. He may well have lived for a time in Bologna and Tuscany, where his influence was very great. He was regarded at the time, and may still claim to be, the most important poet of that period in Italy.</p> <p>DGR's source text in <xref doc="a.pq4213.a2p6.rad" from="319" workcode="165d-1861orig"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Poeti del primo secolo</hi> (I. 319) leads him to the translation of “joyful” in the final line (for “gioia”). But the correct text—a far better one—is “ghiora”, a popular form for “gloria”.

Textual History: Composition

As with most of DGR's translations of the early Italian poets, the date of this cannot be precisely determined. It is probably an early translation.

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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 <hi rend="i">Early Italian Poets</hi> vol. 1, xxvi-xxvii. Valeriani and Lampredi, <hi rend="i">Poeti del primo secolo</hi> vol. 1, 319. Panvini, <hi rend="i">Le rime della scuola siciliana</hi> vol. 1, 49. Contini, <hi rend="i">Poeti de duecento</hi> vol. 1, 80; vol. 2, 804.

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