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“Table of Poets” (in
Early Italian Poets)
I. xxviii
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Contini,
Poeti de Duecento,
I. 363
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“Table of Poets” (in
Early Italian Poets)
I. xxviii
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Contini,
Poeti de Duecento,
I. 363
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Early Italian Poets text
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Scholars are uncertain about the identity of this poet, who was a friend of Onesto di Boncima and who flourished in the later thirteenth and perhaps the early fourteenth-century. One manuscript assigns to him a sonnet written in response to the opening sonnet of the Vita Nuova.
DGR's source text was either Poeti del Primo Secolo (II. 154) or Raccolta di Rime Antiche Toscane (II. 377-378). The translation is at several points quite free, and DGR even departs sharply from the original rhyme scheme.
Textual History: Composition
Probably early, late 1840s or early 1850s.
Printing History
The translation was first published in 1861 in The Early Italian Poets; it was reprinted in 1874 in Dante and his Circle.