Terino Da Castel Fiorentino. “Sonnet. To Onesto di Boncima, in answer to the foregoing” [“Sonnet. He wishes that he could meet his Lady alone.”] Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1848?
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<artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>Scholars are uncertain about the identity of this poet, who was a friend of Onesto di Boncima and who flourished in the later thirteenth and perhaps the early fourteenth-century. One manuscript assigns to him a sonnet written in response to the opening sonnet of the <xref doc="a.dante005.rad" link="dead"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Vita Nuova</hi> .

DGR's source text was either <hi rend="i">Poeti del Primo Secolo</hi> (II. 154) or <hi rend="i">Raccolta di Rime Antiche Toscane</hi> (II. 377-378). The translation is at several points quite free, and DGR even departs sharply from the original rhyme scheme.

Textual History: Composition

Probably early, late 1840s or early 1850s.

Textual History: Revision

Production History

Reception

Iconographic

Printing History

The translation was first published in 1861 in <hi rend="i">The Early Italian Poets</hi> ; it was reprinted in 1874 in <hi rend="i">Dante and his Circle</hi> .

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“Table of Poets” (in Early Italian Poets) I. xxviii Contini, <hi rend="i">Poeti de Duecento</hi> , I. 363

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