Guido Guinicelli. “Sonnet. Of Human Presumption.”

DGR's source is the text in Poeti del Primo Secolo (I. 102). His rhyme scheme varies considerably from Guinizelli's.

As with most of DGR's translations, this one cannot be exactly fixed. It is probably a fairly early work, however—done in the late 1840s.

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