Giovanni Boccaccio. “Sonnet. To Dante in Paradise, after Fiammetta's death.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1855-1860?
Rhyme: abbaabbacdecde
Meter: iambic pentameter
Genre: sonnet

Bibliography

◦ Villarosa, ed., Raccolta IV. 38

◦ Ricci, ed., Opere in versi, 11

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is the third of three sonnets by or attributed to Boccaccio that DGR translated because of what DGR called “the enthusiastic reverence” that Boccaccio had for Dante and his work. (The other two are “To one who had censured his public Exposition of Dante ” and “Inscription for a Portrait of Dante”.

DGR's source text for this translation is the sonnet numbered LX in the Boccaccio section of the collection Raccolta di Rime Antiche Toscane (IV. 38).

Textual History: Composition

As with most of DGR's translations of the early Italian poets, the date of this one cannot be determined with certainty. It is probably one of the later translations.

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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