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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Like Dante's other rime petrose, this sestina probably dates from the winter of 1296-1297. It has been the most commented upon of all the rime petrose, and it has long been recognized as one of the most complex and intellectually rigorous of his lesser works. The importance that Dante himself attached to the work is clear from the two important discussions of the poem that he gives in De vulgari eloquentia (II.x.2, II.xiii.2), where Dante lays out his debt to Arnaut Daniel. Dante does not mention, however, the Daniel poem that his own work follows so closely: “Lo ferm voler q'el cor m'intra”.