Cecco d'Angiolieri, da Siena. “Sonnet. Of Becchina in a Rage.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1861
Rhyme: abbaabbacdecde
Meter: iambic pentameter
Genre: sonnet

Bibliography

“Introduction to Part II” (in Early Italian Poets) 212-217

◦ Lanza, ed., Rime. Cecco Angiolieri, 28-29

◦ Massera, ed., Sonetti Burleschi e Realistici, I. 68

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

For further general information about Cecco and his work see the commentary for “Dante Alighieri, Cecco, your good friend”).

Printing History

The translation was first published in 1861 in The Early Italian Poets; it was reprinted in 1874 in Dante and his Circle.

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