Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: HE RAILS AGAINST DANTE, WHO CENSURED HIS HOMAGE TO BECCHINA, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI DA SIENA


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SONNET: HE RAILS AGAINST DANTE, WHO CENSURED HIS HOMAGE TO BECCHINA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dante alighieri in becchina's praise
Last Line: And in this way we'll singe his skin for him.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE ALIGHIERI in Becchina's praise
Won't have me sing and bears him like my lord.
He's but a pinchbeck florin, on my word;
Sugar he seems, but salt's in all his ways;
He looks like wheaten bread, who's bread of maize;
He's but a sty, though like a tower in height;
A falcon, till you find that he's a kite;
Call him a cock!—a hen's more like his case.
Go now to Florence, Sonnet of my own,
And there with dames and maids hold pretty parles,
And say that all he is doth only seem.
And I meanwhile will make him better known
Unto the Court of Provence, good King Charles;
And in this way we'll singe his skin for him.





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