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The Flower (Il Fiore)

Attributed to Dante (attribution doubtful)

This book is in Italian.

Il Fiore: a crown of 232 sonnets, an Italian reworking of the Roman de la Rose (late 13th century) whose hero is called Durante, attributed since 1881 to the young Dante and still disputed. The text is from it.wikisource, taken from Poemetti allegorico-didattici del secolo XIII (ed. Luigi Di Benedetto, 1941), twenty sonnets to a chapter, one verse to a line, with the edition’s rubrics. Attribution to Dante doubtful. No public-domain English exists.

Contents

Source: All 232 sonnets in 12 chapters of 20 sonnets (the last of 12), with the rubrics as ## headings. Italian only.