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The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Edited with Preface and Notes by William M. Rossetti: Revised and Enlarged Edition
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

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PRINCIPAL POEMS
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II.—MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
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VERSICLES AND FRAGMENTS
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FOREIGN
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JUVENILIA AND GROTESQUES
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TRANSLATIONS
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DANTE AND HIS CIRCLE
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PART II POETS CHIEFLY BEFORE DANTE
  
CIULLO D'ALCAMO
  
FOLCACHIERO DE' FOLCACHIERI, KNIGHT OF SIENA
  
LODOVICO DELLA VERNACCIA
  
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
  
FREDERICK II. EMPEROR
  
ENZO, KING OF SARDINIA
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GUIDO GUINICELLI
  
GUERZO DI MONTECANTI
  
INGHILFREDI, SICILIANO
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RINALDO D'AQUINO
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JACOPO DA LENTINO
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MAZZEO DI RICCO, DA MESSINA
  
PANNUCCIO DAL BAGNO, PISANO
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GIACOMINO PUGLIESI, KNIGHT OF PRATO
  
FRA GUITTONE D' AREZZO
  
BARTOLOMEO DI SANT' ANGELO
  
SALADINO DA PAVIA
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BONAGGIUNTA URBICIANI, DA LUCCA
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MEO ABBRACCIAVACCA, DA PISTOIA
  
UBALDO DI MARCO
  
SIMBUONO GIUDICE
  
MASOLINO DA TODI
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ONESTO DI BONCIMA, BOLOGNESE
  
TERINO DA CASTEL FIORENTINO
  
MAESTRO MIGLIORE, DA FIORENZA
  
DELLO DA SIGNA
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FOLGORE DA SAN GEMINIANO
  
GUIDO DELLE COLONNE
  
PIER MORONELLI, DI FIORENZA
  
CIUNCIO FIORENTINO
  
RUGGIERI DI AMICI, SICILIANO
  
CARNINO GHIBERTI, DA FIORENZA
  
PRINZIVALLE DORIA
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RUSTICO DI FILIPPO
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I Sonnet
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II Sonnet
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III Sonnet
  
PUCCIARELLO DI FIORENZA
  
ALBERTUCCIO DELLA VIOLA
  
TOMMASO BUZZUOLA, DA FAENZA
  
NOFFO BONAGUIDA
  
LIPPO PASCHI DE' BARDI
  
SER PACE, NOTAIO DA FIORENZA
  
NICCOLÒ DEGLI ALBIZZI
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FRANCESCO DA BARBERINO
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FAZIO DEGLI UBERTI
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FRANCO SACCHETTI
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ANONYMOUS POEMS
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TRANSLATIONS from the GERMAN, ITALIAN, FRENCH, AND GREEK

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III
Sonnet

Of Messer Ugolino

If any one had anything to say
To the Lord Ugolino, because he's
Not staunch, and never minds his promises,
'Twere hardly courteous, for it is his way.
Courteous it were to say such sayings nay:
As thus: He's true, sir, only takes his ease
And don't care merely if it plague or please,
And has good thoughts, no doubt, if they would stay.
Now I know he's so loyal every whit
And altogether worth such a good word
As worst would best and best would worst befit.
He'd love his party with a dear accord
If only he could once quite care for it,
But can't run post for any Law or Lord.
 

The character here drawn certainly suggests Count Ugolino de' Gherardeschi, though it would seem that Rustico died nearly twenty years before the tragedy of the Tower of Famine.

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