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“Introduction
to Part II” (in
The Early Italian Poets),
206-211
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Foster and Boyd, Dante's Lyric Poetry,
I.202-203 (II. 328-330)
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Marti, ed.,
Poeti del dolce stil nuovo,
742-743
This collection contains 10 texts and images, including:
Early Italian Poets text.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The sonnet seems a post-exilic work of Dante's, probably written ca. 1303-1306. Cino's response sonnet is the more interesting work of the two.
See also DGR's note to the sonnet, which suggests an early date for the poem. The source text for DGR's translation was Fraticelli's Opere Minori di Dante Alighieri (I. 145).
Textual History: Composition
Probably an early translation, 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.