Note 308 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
Sermintese Storico di A. Pucci, Livorno, Vigo, 1876. It will be remembered that Dante in the Vita Nuova (section vi.) says he composed a Serventese on sixty ladies of Florence. The name was derived from Provence, and altered into Sermintese by the Florentines. We possess a poem of this sort by A. Pucci on the Florentine ladies, printed by D'Ancona in his edition of the Vita Nuova (Pisa, Nistri, p. 71), together with a valuable discourse upon this form of poetry. Carducci in his Cino e Altri prints two Sermintesi by Pucci on the beauties of women.