Cino da Pistoia. “Sonnet. He condemns Dante for not naming, in the Commedia, his friend Onesto di Boncima, and his Lady Selvaggia.” 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>Cino's sonnet is marked by some genial ironies that DGR's translation does not render. It is difficult not to believe that the translation was included in DGR's collection for programmatic reasons, i.e., in order to suggest that Dante's work defines not a completed ideal world, but a model for idealized pursuits and commitments.</p> <p>See also the <xref doc="a.188d-1861orig.raw">commentary</xref> for the source text, which was Sebastiano Ciampi's edition of the <xref doc="a.pq4299.c5.1813.rad" link="dead" from="110" workcode="188d-1861orig"> <hi rend="i">Vita e Poesie di Messer Cino da Pistoia</hi> </xref> (page 110). DGR has a general <xref doc="a.1-1861.rad" from="395">note</xref> to the sonnet, as well as some specific glosses.</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="395" workcode="188d-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 , 922-923

Early Italian Poets text. Sordello: the famous thirteenth-century troubador poet, placed in the ante-Purgatory by Dante (see <hi rend="i">Purgatorio</hi> VI. 58-75). As DGR's note indicates, Arnaut Daniel is placed by Dante in purgatory (see <hi rend="i">Purgatorio</hi> XXVI. 115ff.). See Dante's <hi rend="i">Paradiso</hi> I. 10-12) Cino refers to the tomb of his beloved Selvaggia, as DGR's note indicates. 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