The subject of the poem and its witty, casual manner must have
appealed directly to DGR, whose attitude to his own poverty in his younger years
was very similar. DGR's source text
is Poeti
del Primo Secolo
This is almost certainly an early translation, probably the late 1840s.
The translation was first published in 1861 in
The
Early Italian Poets
Dante
and his Circle
Early Italian Poets