Neither Dante's sonnet nor DGR's translation are especially remarkable, a fact
made all the more apparent by the allusion in lines 2-4 to Cavalcanti's great sonnet
Vita
Nuova
DGR's source text was
“Negli occhi porta la mia donna Amore” in the third volume of Fraticelli's
Opere
Minori di Dante Alighieri
This is an early translation, in the 1840s, perhaps as early as 1846.
bThe translation was first published in 1861 in
The
Early Italian Poets
Dante
and his Circle
Early Italian Poets)Dante's Lyric Poetry