Franco Sacchetti. “Catch. On a Wet Day.”

Like the other translations from Sacchetti, this is somewhat free. Although DGR had access—probably at some later period in his long process of translations—to a text of the poem in Trucchi's Poesie Italiane inedite (II. 177-179), his title and the poem's physical form suggests strongly that his source text was the Raccolta di rime antiche toscane (IV. 208-210).

For commentary on Sachetti and his work see DGR's translation of the “Ballata. His Talk with certain Peasant Girls”.

Probably early, late 1840s.

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