[Anonymous] “Sonnet. A Lady laments for her lost Lover, by similitude of a Falcon.” - Collection Introduction
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
General Description
Date: 1861
Rhyme: abbaabbacdcdcd
Meter: iambic pentameter
Genre: sonnet
Bibliography
◦ Trucchi, Poesie Italiane inedite vol. 1,54 (see also 53).
◦ Panvini, Le rime della scuola siciliana vol. 1, 654-655.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The translation is fairly close to the original sonnet, which remains anonymous to scholars. It is an uncommon example of a Sicilian work by a woman, and it seems of a fairly early date.
DGR's translation departs from the metrical form of the Italian octave. His source text was Trucchi's Poesie Italiane inedite (I. 54); the manuscript source describes it as a ballad for two voices.
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