Messer, lo nostro amore
Saladino da Pavia
General Description
Date: 1260?
Rhyme: abababaccd
Meter: setenarii and hendecasyllabics
Genre: dialogue
The rhyme scheme given here reflects the normative stanza unit, which is ten lines, although the first stanza here has
fourteen lines—the first four being, it seems clear, an alternate text of
the poem's opening. Also, the final three lines in each stanza rhyme differently
in each case.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
This collection contains 3 texts and images, including:
Poeti del primo secolo
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR's source text for the poem was Poeti del Primo Secolo (I. 435-436). The text is quite imperfect at various points, most clearly in the duplicate opening quatrain. In translating the poem DGR tried to remain faithful to these discrepant textualities.
See DGR's translation for further commentary.