A sonnet to be re-attributed to Cino?

Abstract

The sonnet Io mi son tutto dato a trager oro, included among Cino’s poems until the critical edition edited by Guido Zaccagnini (1925), was definitively expelled from the lyrical corpus thanks to Luigi Di Benedetto, who excluded it from his anthology Rimatori del dolce stil novo (1939).  Despite the lack of strong arguments for its exclusion, the poem does not appear in subsequent anthologies of Cino’s work, not even in the section dedicated to texts of uncertain attribution. This article examines the stylistic, philological, and thematic reasons that suggest that Cino was, after all, the author of this text.