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“Introduction
to Part II” (in
The Early Italian Poets),
206-211
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Marti ed., Poeti del dolce stil nuovo,
744-745
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Foster and Boyd, Dante's Lyric Poetry,
I.204-205 (II. 328-330)
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Early Italian Poets text.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Cino's sonnet is a response to Dante's in which “He rebukes Cino for Fickleness”. DGR's translation is somewhat free, particularly at the (important) conclusion to the octave. But it replicates the essential argument, which touches the important theme of the comprehensive authority of an ideal love commitment. Such a commitment, according to the argument, not only permits a variety of attachments, it positively encourages them. Cino's sonnet and DGR's translation explicitly connect this theme to the theme of the spiritual pilgrimage, and DGR will himself replicate the entire argument in his own “House of Life” sequence.
See also the commentary for the source text, which was Sebastiano Ciampi's edition of the Vita e Poesie di Messer Cino da Pistoia (page 97).
Textual History: Composition
Probably an early translation, late 1840s.
Printing History
The translation was first published in 1861 in The Early Italian Poets; it was reprinted in 1874 in Dante and his Circle.