@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt13x101j.3, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x101j.3}, abstract = {These poems are the records of a great poet’s achievement of his greatness. The earliest are juvenilia; the latest, products of Dante’s full maturity. Among them, they span a quarter-century, the years from the early 1280s till 1308 or later which also saw the writing of theVita nuova, theDe vulgari eloquentia, and theConvivio. Their culmination is theDivine Comedy.The collection as we have it is disorderly and heterogeneous, abandoned by its author to history. Yet, for the sake both of the light it casts upon theComedyand of the masterpieces it contains, it has a}, author = {PATRICK S. DIEHL}, booktitle = {Dante's Rime}, pages = {1--14}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, title = {INTRODUCTION}, year = {1979} }