Cino da Pistoia. “Sonnet. Death is not without but within him.” Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1849?; 1861
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<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>This is a fairly strict translation, not least in the metrical features of the original work. DGR keeps the rhyme scheme exactly and also preserves the interesting enjambment at the turn from the octave to the sestet.</p> <p>See also the <xref doc="a.187d-1861orig.raw">commentary</xref> for DGR's source text, which was Ciampi's <xref doc="a.pq4299.c5.1813.rad" from="62" workcode="187d-1861orig"> <hi rend="i">Vita e Poesie di Messer Cino da Pistoia</hi> </xref> (page 62).</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>Probably an early work, late 1840s.</p> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p>The translation was first published in 1861 in <xref doc="a.1-1861.rad" from="388" workcode="187d-1861"> <title level="wrk"> <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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“Introduction to Part II” (in The Early Italian Poets), 206-211 Marti ed., Poeti del dolce stil nuovo , 898-899

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