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Ciullo [Cielo] d'Alcamo

General Description

Date: 1231-1250

Rhyme: ABCBDBEE

Meter: setenarii and hendecasyllabics

Genre: dialogue

DGR's text arranges the lines that come before the final couplet, which should be three alexandrines, as six irregular setenarii.

Bibliography

◦ “Table of Poets”, Early Italian Poets vol. 1, xxiii-xxiv .

◦ Valeriani and Lampredi, Poeti del primo secolo vol. 1, 1-15.

◦ Panvini, Le rime della scuola siciliana vol. 1, 169-176.

◦ Contini Poeti de Duecento, vol. 1 175-185; vol. 2 819.

Annotations

Editorial glosses and textual notes are available in a pop-up window. Line numbering reflects the structure of the Poeti del primo secolo.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

The dialogue is one of the earliest surviving examples of popular poetry devised in the Sicilian Court school of Frederick II in the mid-thirteenth-century. DGR's source text in Poeti del primo secolo (I. 1-15) alters the original metrical structure of the poem.

See DGR's translation for further commentary.

Textual History: Composition

Internal evidence shows the poem was written between 1231-1250.

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