Cecco d'Angiolieri, da Siena. “Prolonged Sonnet. When his
Clothes were gone.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: [untitled]
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1870 February 20
Type of Manuscript: fair copy with alternate reading
Collation: 1 leaf
Note: DGR enclosed the sonnet in his letter to Swinburne of 21 February 1870
Provenance
Current Location: British Library, Ashley Collection
Catalog Number: Ashley 1404
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: By permission of the British Library
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is the only known manuscript of DGR's translation, which DGR adds at the end of his letter to Swinburne with the following note: “Here is a prolonged sonnet of Cecco's which I translated yesterday”. The text shows an alternative reading for line 13, which DGR asks Swinburne to decide about.