The _Convivio_ or _Convito_ was first printed at Florence in 1490.
Eighteen _canzoni_ (erroneously numbered as fourteen) were published
at the end of a Venetian edition of the _Commedia_ in November, 1491.
Fifteen genuine Dantesque _canzoni_, with others wrongly ascribed to
him, are contained in a collection printed at Milan and at Venice in
1518. The first partially complete edition of Dante’s lyrical poetry
is contained in the first four books of _Sonetti e canzoni di diversi
antichi autori toscani in dieci libri raccolte_, edited by Bernardo
di Giunta at Florence in 1527. The _Vita Nuova_ was first printed at
Florence in 1576; but its lyrics had been given in the first book
of the 1527 _Sonetti e canzoni_. The _De Vulgari Eloquentia_ was
published in Trissino’s Italian translation at Vicenza in 1529, and in
the original Latin at Paris in 1577; the _Monarchia_ in 1559 at Basle.
The latter work had been translated into Italian by Marsilio Ficino
in the latter half of the fifteenth century. The Letter to Henry VII.
was first published in an old Italian version in 1547; in its original
Latin by Witte in 1827.
The Epistle to Can Grande was first published in 1700, the Eclogues in
1719. The Letters as a whole were edited by Witte in 1827 and by Torri
in 1842.
Special editions and studies. (_a_) VITA NUOVA. Critical edition by
M. Barbi (Florence, 1907); with notes and commentary by M. Scherillo
(Milan, 1911, reprinted with the _Canzoniere_); G. Salvadori, _Sulla
vita giovanile di Dante_ (Rome, 1906); _Vita Nuova_ and _Canzoniere_,
text, translation, and notes by P. H. Wicksteed and T. Okey (“Temple
Classics”). For the “dolce stil nuovo,” V. Rossi, in _Lectura Dantis,
Le Opere Minori_ (Florence, 1906), and Parodi, _Poesia e storia
nella D.C._ A new edition of the _Vita Nuova_ is published by K.
McKenzie (London, 1923). (_b_) RIME OR CANZONIERE. M. Barbi, _Studi
sul Canzoniere di Dante_ (Florence, 1915); G. Zonta, _La lirica di
Dante_ (in _Miscellanea dantesca_, supplement 18-21 of _Giornale
storico della letteratura italiana_, Turin, 1922); E. G. Gardner,
_The Lyrical Poetry of Dante_ (in preparation). For the tenzone with
Forese F. Torraca, _Nuovi studi danteschi_ (Naples, 1921), and A. F.
Massèra, _Sonetti burleschi e realistici dei primi due secoli_ (Bari,
1920); for the tenzone with Dante da Maiano, S. Santangelo, _Dante
Alighieri e Dante da Maiano_ (in _Bullettino della Società Dantesca
Italiana_, N. S., XXVII., 1920); for the canzone of the _Tre donne_,
Torraca, _op. cit._, and Carducci, _Opere_ xvi (“Poesia e Storia”).
The majority of the _Rime_ are translated by Wicksteed in the “Temple
Classics” volume cited above. (_c_) CONVIVIO. Translation by W. W.
Jackson (Oxford, 1909); translation and commentary by Wicksteed
in the “Temple Classics”; Wicksteed, _From Vita Nuova to Paradiso_
(Manchester University Press, 1922). (_d_) DE VULGARI ELOQUENTIA.
Critical edition by P. Rajna (Florence, 1896); facsimile reproduction
of Berlin MS., L.
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