Resumen de Un sonetto da togliere a Boccaccio e una questione ecdotica
This article examines three closely related sonnets all dedicated to Caesar’s false tears and Hannibal’s feigned laughter. They include Petrarch’s Cesare, poi che ’l traditor d’Egitto (Rvf CII), Antonio Beccari’s Cesare, poi che recevé ’l presente and Cesare, poi ch’ebbe, per tradimento, attributed to Boccaccio by the manuscripts transmitting it. This article examines the position held by those who are critical of such an attribution and raises a philological question regarding the second line, which may very well serve as further evidence against Boccaccio’s presumed authorship. In fact, the article tentatively proposes rejecting a conjecture which has been generally accepted in most editions of Boccaccio’s Rime. There follows a discussion of the sources of the three texts and their interconnections, including some observations on their individual chronologies
