Table of Poets in Part I [introduction to Part I of <hi rend="i">The Early Italian Poets</hi>] Poets Chiefly Before Dante Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1861
literary commentary <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>Although these notes are now quite dated in a scholarly point of view, they retain our interest for the light they shed on DGR's own views about the poets and the circumstances in which they wrote. The same judgment would apply to DGR's <xref doc="a.4p-1861.raw">critical comments</xref> on Dante and the poets of his closest circle, although in that case—because the scholarly tradition was already well developed—DGR's discussion is much more reliable.</p> <p>The three most important critical sections in these notes are the ones devoted to Fazio degli Uberti, Cecco Angiolieri, and Franco Sacchetti. In each case one notes DGR's interest in those lines of poetry that concern themselves with the mundane world, whether treated in a high style or otherwise. It is this set of interests that also drives him to translate so many of the sonnets of Cecco Angiolieri.</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>DGR probably wrote these notes on the poets fairly late—probably in late 1860 or in early or mid-1861, when he was putting the whole book of translations together. Not many manuscripts dealing with these notes survive (see commentary for the introductory essay on <xref doc="a.4p-1861.raw"> <title level="wrk">“Dante and his Circle” ), but two fragments, one at Duke and the other in the museum of the South African National Gallery, are interesting survivals.

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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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See the editorial commentary for the 1861 edition as a whole.

The Early Italian Poets text See Trucchi I. 29-30. DGR's dates are much more accurate. See Trucchi I. 172-178. 1815: this is Federigo Ubaldini's edition of the <hi rend="i">Del reggimento e de' costumi delle donne di Messer Francesco da Barberino</hi> .
The Early Italian Poets text. The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Fitzwilliam Proof Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Alderman annotated copy Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), Presentation Copy to Frederick Shields. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) (the Princeton illustrated copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo d'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) (Proof Copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Wrenn Proof Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Yale University Beinecke Library Proof Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100—1200—1300). Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1874 0 The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 2 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0