Morte perché mai fatto sì gran guerra

Giacomino Pugliesi

General Description

Date: 1230?
Rhyme: ABABCCBCCB
Meter: hendecasyllables and setenarii
Genre: canzone

Bibliography

“Table of Poets” in Early Italian Poets, xxvii.

◦ Valeriani and Lampredi Poeti del primo secolo, I. 257-259.

◦ Panvini, Le rime della scuola siciliana, I. 179-181.

◦ Contini Poeti de duecento I. 146-148; II. 814.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Despite assiduous scholarly efforts, nothing determinate is known about the author of this well-known early canzone. The authorial name is therefore a convention adopted from a name that appears in the earliest manuscripts.

See DGR's translation for further commentary.

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