This is a trecento work and is not by Cavalcanti, as DGR himself surmised (see his note
to “Canzone. A Song of
Fortune”. The actual author is unknown. DGR's source text in
Cicciaporci
(Rime Inedite, Canzone I, pages 42-44) is reasonably clean. It derives from a manuscript
in the Biblioteca Municipale di Siena (1.ix.18), which was the source of two other of
these inauthentic canzoni.
This collection contains 10 texts and images, including:
The Early Italian Poets text
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is a trecento work and is not by Cavalcanti, as DGR himself surmised (see his note to “Canzone. A Song of Fortune”. The actual author is unknown. DGR's source text in Cicciaporci (Rime Inedite, Canzone I, pages 42-44) is reasonably clean. It derives from a manuscript in the Biblioteca Municipale di Siena (1.ix.18), which was the source of two other of these inauthentic canzoni.
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.