Cino da Pistoia. “Sonnet (to Dante Alighieri). He answers Dante, confessing his unsteadfast Heart.” 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 a response to Dante's in which <xref doc="a.42d-1861.raw">“He rebukes Cino for Fickleness”</xref>. 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 <xref doc="a.44-1869.raw"> <title level="wrk">“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).

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Probably an early translation, late 1840s.

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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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“Introduction to Part II” (in The Early Italian Poets), 206-211 Marti ed., Poeti del dolce stil nuovo , 744-745 Foster and Boyd, <xref doc="a.pq4309.a1.1967.rad" link="dead" from="204" to="205"> <hi rend="i">Dante's Lyric Poetry</hi> </xref> , I.204-205 (II. 328-330) .

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