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Ma non prima sarà che 'l Dato la musa corona Invochi, allora subito cantando l'avete, Tal qual si gode presso il celeste Tonante. |
Of the Sapphics the following is a specimen:
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Eccomi, i' son qui Dea degli amici, Quella qual tutti li omini solete Mordere, e falso fugitiva dirli, Or la volete. |
[285] Carducci, "Della Rime di Dante Alighieri," Studi, p. 154.
[286] For Giotto's and Orcagna's poems, see Trucchi, vol. ii. pp. 8 and 25.
[287] See above, [pp. 17] et seq.
[288] The Tavola Ritonda has been reprinted, 2 vols., Bologna, Romagnoli, 1864. It corresponds very closely in material to our Mort d'Arthur, beginning with the history of Uther Pendragon and ending with Arthur's wound and departure to the island of Morgan le Fay.
[289] See above, [p. 18]. The subject of these romances has been ably treated by Pio Rajna in his works, I Reali di Francia (Bologna, Romagnoli, 1872), and Le Fonti dell'Orlando Furioso (Firenze, Sansoni, 1876).
[290] The Rinaldino, a prose romance recently published (Bologna, Romagnoli, 1865), might be selected as a thoroughly Italian fioritura on the ancient Carolingian theme.
[291] We have here the germ of the Orlando and of the first part of the Morgante.