[Anonymous] “Ballata. One speaks of his feigned and real Love.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1861
Rhyme: a5b3a5b3 b3c3c3d5 (with refrain a3b3b3a5), where the a rhyme corresponds to the d rhyme in the stanza)
Meter: iambic
Genre: ballata

Bibliography

◦ Trucchi, Poesie Italiane inedite vol. 2,49 (see also page 48).

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

The translation stays close to the original in both its technical and its substantive aspects. It is in fact a superb tour de force. The ballata's author remains anonymous, but it is an early thirteenth-century work. DGR's source text was Trucchi's Poesie Italiane inedite (II. 49)

Textual History: Composition

Probably a later translation, late 1850s.

Printing History

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

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 80d-1861.raw.xml