Le Rime

Le Rime (The Rhymes) are a group of lyric poems by Dante Alighieri written throughout his life and based on the poet's varied existential and stylistic experiences. They were not designed as a collection by Dante himself, but were collected and ordered later by modern critics.

Statue of Dante in Florence, Italy
For the poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, see The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

A subsection of the collection is a group of four poems known as the Rime Petrose, love poems dedicated to a woman called Petra, composed around 1296.[1] Stylistically those poems are regarded as a transition between the love lyric of La Vita Nuova and the more sacred subject matter of the Divine Comedy.[2]

References
  1. Sheehan, Donald (1967). "A Reading of Dante's Rime petrose". Italica. 44 (2): 144–62. JSTOR 477749.
  2. Sturm-Maddox, Sara (1987). "The Rime Petrose and the Purgatorial Palinode". Studies in Philology. 84 (2): 119–363. JSTOR 4174263.
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