WITH THE ITALIAN POETS PRECEDING HIM.

(1100-1200 — 1300).

A COLLECTION OF LYRICS,

EDITED, AND TRANSLATED IN THE ORIGINAL METRES, BY

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.

REVISED AND RE-ARRANGED EDITION.

PART I.

DANTE'S VITA NUOVA, &c.

POETS OF DANTE'S CIRCLE.

PART II.

POETS CHIEFLY BEFORE DANTE.

LONDON:

ELLIS AND WHITE, 29 NEW BOND STREET.

1874.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY JOHN STRANGEWAYS,

Castle St. Leicester Sq.

TO MY MOTHER

I DEDICATE THIS NEW EDITION

OF A BOOK PRIZED BY HER LOVE.

Advertisement to the present Edition.

IN re-entitling and re-arranging this book (originally published in 1861 as The Early Italian Poets,) my object has been to make more evident at a first glance its important relation to Dante. The Vita Nuova, together with the many among Dante's lyrics and those of his contemporaries which elucidate their personal intercourse, are here assembled, and brought to my best ability into clear connection, in a manner not elsewhere attempted even by Italian or German editors.