Folcachiero de' Folcachieri “Canzone. He speaks of his Condition through Love.” Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1848?;1861
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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>DGR includes this canzone as an example of Siculo-Toscani verse, in this case a Sienese example. His translation follows his usual way of rendering the Italian hendeccasyllables and setenarii as imabic pentameters and iambic trimeters. DGR varies slightly the canzone's closing rhymes from dede to deed.</p> <p>DGR's source is the text in <xref doc="a.pq4213.a2p6.rad" from="15" to="17" workcode="144d-1861orig"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Poeti del Primo Secolo</hi> (I. 15-17).

Folcachiero (or Folcachieri) was a member of the powerful Sienese family that supported the cause of Frederick II and that fought on his behalf. He was still alive in 1277.

Textual History: Composition

As with most of DGR's translations, this one cannot be exactly fixed. It is probably a fairly early work, however, given its close relation to his translation of Ciullo d'Alcamo's “Dialogue. Lover and Lady” , which we know was one of the earliest of DGR's translations.

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> .

Pictorial

Historical

Literary

DGR's discussion of his source text dates the canzone much too early. It was composed sometime in the dugento and probably late in Folcachiero's life—perhaps shortly after 1266, after the defeat of Frederick's son Manfred at the battle of Benevento.

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Poeti del Primo Secolo1 Text I. 15-17 Panvini I. 359-362.

Dante and His Circle text speaks of (1874): dwells on (1861) See WMR's note (1911). Dante and His Circle text The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Fitzwilliam Proof Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Alderman annotated copy Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), Presentation Copy to Frederick Shields. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) (the Princeton illustrated copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo d'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) (Proof Copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Wrenn Proof Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300), the Yale University Beinecke Library Proof Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1861 0 Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100—1200—1300). Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1874 0 The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 2 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0