Cino da Pistoia. “Madrigal. To his Lady Selvaggia Vergiolesi; likening his Love to a search for Gold.”

The poem in DGR's source text in Ciampi's Vita e Poesie di Messer Cino da Pistoia (page 144) is no longer included in Cino's corpus, nor have scholars determined its authorship. Nor is the original any more interesting as a poem than DGR's translation. Both exhibit a figural elaboration that seems more pedantic and mannered than rich and extravagant.

See also the commentary for the source text.

Probably an early translation, late 1840s.

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