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“Introduction
to Part II” (in
Early Italian Poets)
212-217
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Lanza, ed.,
Rime. Cecco Angiolieri, 167-168
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Massera, ed.,
Sonetti Burleschi e Realistici,
117
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Early Italian Poets text
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This sonnet is commonly paired with the sonnet preceding it, another wonderful piece of vituperation against his father.
DGR's source text was Raccolta di Rime Antiche Toscane (II. 162).
For further general information about Cecco and his work see the commentary for “Dante Alighieri, Cecco, your good friend”).
Textual History: Composition
This seems to have been a late composition, as we judge from DGR's fair copy of his Italian source text, which is copied on paper stock with an 1860 watermark.
Printing History
The translation was first published in 1861 in The Early Italian Poets; it was reprinted in 1874 in Dante and his Circle.