Youth and Lordship (Italian Street Song)

Youth and Lordship (Italian Street Song) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1871 <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>This is DGR's translation of an anonymous street song which he appears to have translated during his 1871 sojourn at Kelmscott with Jane Morris. That context, which inevitably shapes one's sense of the poem's import, is underscored by the presence of the Bodleian manuscript.</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>The <xref doc="a.22p-1880.blnb1.rad" from="[5v]" to="[7v]" workcode="">text</xref> of the Italian song is worked into three pages of Note Book 1 in the Ashley Library, along with a draft text of stanza one of DGR's translation. A <xref doc="a.9-1874.bodleianms.rad" workcode="41b-1871" from="[9a]" to="[10a]">fair copy</xref> is included among the miscellaneous poems DGR gathered at the back of the gift book of verses he gave to Mrs. Morris in 1874, along with a <xref doc="a.9-1874.bodleianms.rad" workcode="41a-1871" from="[7a]" to="[8a]">fair copy</xref> of the Italian original. Fair copies of the <xref doc="a.41a-1871.lillyms.rad">Italian text</xref> and of the <xref doc="a.41b-1871.lillyms.rad">translation</xref> are also in the Lilly Library. These were printer's copy for the 1881 publication. <xref doc="a.41-1871.lcms.rad">Another fair copy</xref> of both original and translation is preserved in the Library of Congress, and the Boston Public Library has what appears to be the earliest of the manuscripts of <xref doc="a.41a-1871.bostonms.rad">the song</xref> and <xref doc="a.41b-1871.bostonms.rad">DGR's translation</xref>.</p> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p>First published in DGR's 1881 <xref doc="a.1-1881.1stedn.rad" from="288" to="290" workcode="41b-1871"> <hi rend="i">Poems. A New Edition</hi> </xref>. and collected thereafter.</p> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="translation"> <head>Translation</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p/> </section> </commentaries> <linenotes> <basis>The first edition of the 1881 <xref doc="a.1-1881.1stedn.rad" from="288" to="290" workcode="41b-1871"> <hi rend="i">Poems. A New Edition</hi> </xref> </basis> <lines> <gloss/> <textual/> <comp> <gloss/> <textual/> </comp> </lines> </linenotes> <paranotes> <basis/> <paras> <gloss/> <textual/> <comp> <gloss/> <textual/> </comp> </paras> </paranotes> </profiledesc> <revisiondesc/> </ramheader> <readingtext>The first edition of the 1881 <xref doc="a.1-1881.1stedn.rad" from="288" to="290" workcode="41b-1871"> <hi rend="i">Poems. A New Edition</hi> </xref> </readingtext> <viewingimage/> <wclist> <wc fileid="a.1-1881.1stedn.rad.xml" anchor="0.4.7.1" archivetype="rad" type="book" image="a.1-1881.1stedn.ii-iii.tif"> <title>Poems. A New Edition. (1881) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 0 Poems. A New Edition (1881), proof Signature U (Delaware Museum, first proof (author's copy 2)) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 16 (circa) 0 The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 1 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 Small Notebook 1 (British Library) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1871-1879? 0 Youth and Lordship (An Italian Street Song) Gioventù e Signorìa. Youth and Lordship Dante Gabriel Rossetti (translator) 1879-1880 0 Youth and Lordship (Boston Public Library corrected copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1879-1880 0 Youth and Lordship Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1879-1880 0 The Bodleian Notebook (“Kelmscott Love Sonnets”) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1874 0