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Mazzeo di Ricco da Messina

General Description

Date: 1260?
Rhyme: ababababcdecde
Meter: hendecasyllabics
Genre: sonnet

Bibliography

◦ Panvini, Le rime della scuola siciliana, I. 212.

Poeti del primo secolo, I. 334.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Mazzeo di Ricco was a second generation poet of the Sicilian School. Most of his poems descending to us are canzone. DGR's source text for this sonnet was Poeti del primo secolo (I. 334).

See DGR's translation for further commentary.

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