Introduction to Dante and His Circle [introduction to Part II of <hi rend="i">The Early Italian Poets</hi>, Part I of <hi rend="i">Dante and His Circle</hi>] Dante and his Circle 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>Along with the <xref doc="a.2p-1861.raw"> <title level="wrk">“Preface” to <hi rend="i">The Early Italian Poets</hi> , this Introduction to the section focused on Dante and his circle is one of DGR's most important critical writings. Only “Hand and Soul” contains more trenchant explications of DGR's leading aesthetic ideas, and in that case the focus is on painting rather than writing.

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DGR probably wrote these notes on Dante and his circle fairly late—probably in 1860 or in early or mid-1861, when he was putting the whole book of translations together. As with the related critical material that he included in <hi rend="i">The Early Italian Poets</hi> , the essay on “Poets Chiefly before Dante” , not many manuscript materials survive that relate to this essay. One of those that does survive is watermarked 1859. The largest single set of these materials is housed in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center—four pages of notes in English and Italian.

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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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The Early Italian Poets text See WMR's note, (1911) Boccaccio's biography was published 1373-1375 as part of his commentary on the <xref doc="a.dante002.rad" link="dead">Commedia</xref> . DGR quotes the translation of Charles Bagot Cayley (published in 4 vols. in 1851-1855). Compagni's Chronicle: Dino Compagni wrote his <hi rend="i">Cronica delle cose occorenti ne' tempi suoi</hi> between 1310-1312. DGR quotes from Book I section XX. Giovanni Villani, <hi rend="i">Croniche fiorentine</hi> Book VIII section xli. Villani, Book VIII section xlii. WMR's translation of <hi rend="i">The Comedy of Dante. The Hell</hi> was published by Macmillan in 1865. William Frederick Pollock's translation of <hi rend="i">The Divine Comedy</hi> appeared in 1854. Franco Sacchetti, “Novella LXVIII” in the <hi rend="i">Trecentonovelle</hi> . Donna mi priega: this is the most famous of all of Cavalcanti's poems and one of the most commented upon text of the period. Its intellectual ingenuity continues to exercise scholars and translators (see Casatta pages 128-140). The sonnet by Guido Orlandi mentioned by DGR posed a series of questions about the nature of love. Rev. Charles T. Brooks: his translation appeared in Charles Eliot Norton's <hi rend="i">The New life of Dante : an essay, with translations</hi> (1859). those who. . .friend of his: “De Vulgari Eloquio” I.x.4. Latin epistle: “Epistola III” . lamented in a canzone: the canzone is “Per la morte de lo imperatore Henrico da Lucimburgo” commentary on the statutes of Pistoia: <hi rend="i">Lectura in Codicem</hi> (1314). how bitter. . .his house: DGR is translating from Dante's <hi rend="i">Paradiso</hi> Canto XVII. Crescimbeni (note): Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, <hi rend="i">L'Istoria della volgar poesia</hi> (1698).
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