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Jacopo da Lentino. “Sonnet. No Jewel is worth his Lady.” - Collection Introduction

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

DGR's translation of the original sonnet is exceedingly free, even in the deployment of its rhymes. But the result is so successful as poetry, particularly the exquisite sestet, that one can hardly find fault with the liberties he took.

The source text is Poeti del Primo Secolo (I. 302).

Textual History: Composition

As with most of DGR's translations of the early Italian poets, the date of this cannot be precisely determined. It is probably an early translation.

Jacopo da Lentino. “Sonnet. No Jewel is worth his Lady.” - Collection Introduction

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Textual History: Composition

Printing History