Franco Sacchetti. “Catch. On a Wet Day.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1849?; 1861
Rhyme: irregular
Meter: irregular iambic
Genre: song
This is a “caccia”, a form for musical accompaniment and several voices.

Bibliography

“Table of Poets” in Early Italian Poets, xxxv-xxxvi.

Raccolta di rime antiche toscane, IV. 208-210 (see also 174-176).

Annotations

Editorial glosses and textual notes are available in a pop-up window. Line numbering reflects the structure of the Early Italian Poets.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Like the other translations from Sacchetti, this is somewhat free. Although DGR had access—probably at some later period in his long process of translations—to a text of the poem in Trucchi's Poesie Italiane inedite (II. 177-179), his title and the poem's physical form suggests strongly that his source text was the Raccolta di rime antiche toscane (IV. 208-210).

For commentary on Sachetti and his work see DGR's translation of the “Ballata. His Talk with certain Peasant Girls”.

Textual History: Composition

Probably early, 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.

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