La Pia De' Tolomei (early sketch) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, & Special Collections Library La Pia De' Tolomei DGR 1867 (circa) Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina pencil and pen 8 10/16 x 7 1/2 in. In the upper right corner there is a note by WMR: “By Gabriel c. 1868—La Pia .” <artist/> <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 composition sketch is part of <xref doc="a.nb0002.duke.rad" from="[30]" workcode="s207e">one of the notebooks</xref> preserved in the Duke University Library.</p> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconograpic</head> <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="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Surtees</author>, <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="119" workcode="s207"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 120 (no. 207e).

LA PIA

Ah! where on earth thy voice again is heard And thou from the long road hast rested thee, (After the second spirit said the third) Remember me whom am La Pia: Me Siena, me Maremma, made, unmade. He knoweth this thing in his heart,—even he With whose fair jewel I was ringed & wed. The title of the picture is inscribed on a cartouche at the bottom of the drawing. Along the side of the page is DGR's translation of the passage from Dante's <hi rend="i">Purgatorio</hi> .