FOOTNOTES:[10]Io spero di dicer di lei quello che mai non fue detto d’alcuna:dicer(dire) anddetta, have here (as elsewhere in Dante) the sense of artistic utterance, and more particularly composition in poetry, whether in Latin or the vernacular.Cf.V. N.xxv.[11]Livi has shown that the first documentary evidence of the existence of theVita Nuovaas a book is found at Bologna in June 1306.[12]The Sexcentenary Dante admits as authentic one canzone not included in this series:Lo doloroso amor che mi conduce(Rimelxviii., O. canz. xvi.*); which is evidently an early composition.[13]Cf.Rimexlviii., lvi., lxiii. and the later xcix.; O. son. xlviii.*, ball. viii., son. I.*, son. xxxvii.*[14]Note especially Rime lix., lxvi.; O. sonnets lv., xxxviii*.[15]To this group I would assign the sonnet,Chi guarderà già mai sanza paura, and the ballata,I’ mi son pargoletta bella e nova, without attaching any special significance to the fact that “pargoletta” (“maiden” or “young girl”) occurs also in the canzone,Io son venuto al punto de la rota, and in Beatrice’s rebuke,Purg.xxxi. 59.[16]Cf.G. Livi,Dante suoi primi cultori sua gente in Bologna, p. 24.[17]Barbi adds to theRimewritten in exile the impressive political sonnet, yearning for justice and peace,Se vedi li docchi miei di pianger vaghi(of which the attribution to Dante has sometimes been questioned), and the sonnet on Lisetta,Per quella via che la bellezza corre, a beautiful piece of unquestionable authenticity, but which may, perhaps, belong to an earlier epoch in the poet’s life.[18]Butcf.Wicksteed,From Vita Nuova to Paradiso, pp. 93-121.
[10]Io spero di dicer di lei quello che mai non fue detto d’alcuna:dicer(dire) anddetta, have here (as elsewhere in Dante) the sense of artistic utterance, and more particularly composition in poetry, whether in Latin or the vernacular.Cf.V. N.xxv.
[10]Io spero di dicer di lei quello che mai non fue detto d’alcuna:dicer(dire) anddetta, have here (as elsewhere in Dante) the sense of artistic utterance, and more particularly composition in poetry, whether in Latin or the vernacular.Cf.V. N.xxv.
[11]Livi has shown that the first documentary evidence of the existence of theVita Nuovaas a book is found at Bologna in June 1306.
[11]Livi has shown that the first documentary evidence of the existence of theVita Nuovaas a book is found at Bologna in June 1306.
[12]The Sexcentenary Dante admits as authentic one canzone not included in this series:Lo doloroso amor che mi conduce(Rimelxviii., O. canz. xvi.*); which is evidently an early composition.
[12]The Sexcentenary Dante admits as authentic one canzone not included in this series:Lo doloroso amor che mi conduce(Rimelxviii., O. canz. xvi.*); which is evidently an early composition.
[13]Cf.Rimexlviii., lvi., lxiii. and the later xcix.; O. son. xlviii.*, ball. viii., son. I.*, son. xxxvii.*
[13]Cf.Rimexlviii., lvi., lxiii. and the later xcix.; O. son. xlviii.*, ball. viii., son. I.*, son. xxxvii.*
[14]Note especially Rime lix., lxvi.; O. sonnets lv., xxxviii*.
[14]Note especially Rime lix., lxvi.; O. sonnets lv., xxxviii*.
[15]To this group I would assign the sonnet,Chi guarderà già mai sanza paura, and the ballata,I’ mi son pargoletta bella e nova, without attaching any special significance to the fact that “pargoletta” (“maiden” or “young girl”) occurs also in the canzone,Io son venuto al punto de la rota, and in Beatrice’s rebuke,Purg.xxxi. 59.
[15]To this group I would assign the sonnet,Chi guarderà già mai sanza paura, and the ballata,I’ mi son pargoletta bella e nova, without attaching any special significance to the fact that “pargoletta” (“maiden” or “young girl”) occurs also in the canzone,Io son venuto al punto de la rota, and in Beatrice’s rebuke,Purg.xxxi. 59.
[16]Cf.G. Livi,Dante suoi primi cultori sua gente in Bologna, p. 24.
[16]Cf.G. Livi,Dante suoi primi cultori sua gente in Bologna, p. 24.
[17]Barbi adds to theRimewritten in exile the impressive political sonnet, yearning for justice and peace,Se vedi li docchi miei di pianger vaghi(of which the attribution to Dante has sometimes been questioned), and the sonnet on Lisetta,Per quella via che la bellezza corre, a beautiful piece of unquestionable authenticity, but which may, perhaps, belong to an earlier epoch in the poet’s life.
[17]Barbi adds to theRimewritten in exile the impressive political sonnet, yearning for justice and peace,Se vedi li docchi miei di pianger vaghi(of which the attribution to Dante has sometimes been questioned), and the sonnet on Lisetta,Per quella via che la bellezza corre, a beautiful piece of unquestionable authenticity, but which may, perhaps, belong to an earlier epoch in the poet’s life.
[18]Butcf.Wicksteed,From Vita Nuova to Paradiso, pp. 93-121.
[18]Butcf.Wicksteed,From Vita Nuova to Paradiso, pp. 93-121.