Note 712 — Chapter IV · THE DISCOVERY OF MAN. SPIRITUAL DESCRIPTION IN POETRY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
These were the ‘Canzoni’ and Sonnets which every blacksmith and donkey-driver sang and parodied—which made Dante not a little angry. (Comp. Franco Sachetti, Nov. 114, 115.) So quickly did these poems find their way among the people.