SOURCE: Edwards, Robert R. “Guinizelli's Readers and the Strategies of Historicism.” Philological Quarterly 71, no. 4 (fall 1992): 419-36.

In the following essay, Edwards examines the influence of literary history on the responses of the Marqués de Santillana, Guittone d'Arezzo, Bonagiunta of Lucca, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Guinizelli's poetry.

Mediocre vsaron aquellos que en vulgar escriuieron, asy commo Guido Janunçello, boloñés, e Arnaldo Daniel, proençal. E commo quier que destos yo no he visto obra alguna, pero quieren algunos auer ellos sido los primeros que escriuieron terçio rimo e aun sonetos en romançe; e asy commo dize el philósofo, de los primeros primera es la especulaçión.

Those who write in the vernacular use the middle style, such as Guido Guinizelli the Bolognese and Arnaut Daniel the Provençal. And although I have not seen any work of theirs, nonetheless some wish...