Princeton Dante Project Minor Works
Rime
Vita Nuova
Convivio
De vulgari eloquentia
Monarchia
Epistole
Egloghe
Questio de 
aqua et terra
Il Fiore
Detto d'Amore

Rime:
Dante's lyric poems, written between 1283 [?] and 1308 [?]. Testo critico della Societa' Dantesca Italiana; Florence: Societa' Dantesca Italiana, 1960. Edited by Michele Barbi. Translated by K. Foster and P. Boyde.

Vita nuova:
Thirty-one of Dante's lyrics surrounded by an unprecedented self-commentary forming a narrative of his love for Beatrice (1293?). Testo critico della Società Dantesca Italiana; Florence: Società Dantesca Italiana, 1960. Edited by Michele Barbi. Translated by Mark Musa.

De vulgari eloquentia:
Unfinished treatise on and defense of the use of vernacular in poems in the high or 'tragic') style, ca.1304. Testo critico della Società Dantesca Italiana; Florence: Società Dantesca Italiana, 1960. Edited by Pio Rajna. Translated by Steven Botterill.

Convivio:
Unfinished but voluminous treatise on the uses of philosophic wisdom in the form of commentary on some of the author's odes, ca. 1303-1306.Edizione Nazionale (Florence: Le Lettere, 1995). Edited by Franca Brambilla Ageno. Translated by Richard Lansing. .

Monarchia:
Political treatise on the relations between Church and Empire, probably written fairly late in Dante's career (1317?). Edizione Nazionale; Florence: Società Dantesca Italiana, 1965. Edited by Pier Giorgio Ricci. Translated by Prue Shaw.

Epistole:
Thirteen of those that have been preserved. The authenticity of the last has been disputed in the last century and one half (Epistle to Cangrande). Testo critico della Societa' Dantesca Italiana; Florence: Societa' Dantesca Italiana, 1960. Edited by Ermenegildo Pistelli. Translated by Paget Toynbee.

Egloghe:
Exchange of Latin poems between Giovanni del Virgilio and Dante, ca. 1320. Testo critico della Societa' Dantesca Italiana; Florence: Societa' Dantesca Italiana, 1960. Edited by Ermenegildo Pistelli. Translated by Ph. Wicksteed & E.G. Gardner.

Questio:
Lecture given by Dante in Verona in 1320 on the relation between the water and the land -- his one venture into 'scientific writing'. Testo critico della Società Dantesca Italiana; Florence: Società Dantesca Italiana, 1960. Edited by Ermenegildo Pistelli. Translated by Philip Wicksteed.

Il Fiore:
Many -- but not all -- now believe Dante wrote these 232 sonnets based on the Roman de la rose, the 13th-century poem in Old French (Milan: Mondadori, 1984). Edited by Gianfranco Contini. Translated by S. Casciani & C. Kleinhenz

Detto d'Amore:
An extended amatory lyric; most who study the question agree that its author and the author of Il Fiore are the same person; thus it, too, is now thought by many to be Dante's (Milan: Mondadori, 1984). Edited by Gianfranco Contini. Translated by S. Casciani & C. Kleinhenz.

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Rime

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Vita Nuova

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ii 1-10 xii 1-17 xxii 1-17 xxxii 1-6 xlii 1-3
iii 1-15 xiii 1-10 xxiii 1-31 xxxiii 1-9  
iv 1-3 xix 1-14 xxiv 1-11 xxxiv 1-11  
v 1-4 xv 1-9 xxv 1-19 xxxv 1-8  
vi 1-2 xvi 1-11 xxvi 1-15 xxxvi 1-5  
vii 1-7 xvii 1-2 xxvii 1-5 xxxvii 1-8  
viii 1-12 xviii 1-9 xxviii 1-3 xxxviii 1-10  
ix 1-13 xix 1-22 xxix 1-4 xxxix 1-10  
x 1-3 xx 1-8 xxx 1-3 xl 1-10  

De vulgari eloquentia

I liber primus II liber secundus
i 1-4 xi 1-7 i 1-10 xi 1-13
ii 1-8 xii 1-9 ii 1-10 xii 1-11
iii 1-3 xiii 1-5 iii 1-11 xiii 1-13
iv 1-7 xiv 1-8 iv 1-8 xiv 1-2
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vi 1-7 xvi 1-6 vi 1-8  
vii 1-8 xvii 1-7 vii 1-7  
viii 1-9 xviii 1-5 viii 1-9  
ix 1-11 xix 1-3 ix 1-6  
x 1-9   x 1-6  

Convivio

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ii 1-17 xii 1-13 ii 1-10 xii 1-10 ii 1-19 xii 1-14 ii 1-8 xii 1-11 xxii 1-11
iii 1-11 xiii 1-12 iii 1-18 xiii 1-30 iii 1-15 xiii 1-11 iii 1-17 xiii 1-26 xxiii 1-11
iv 1-14   iv 1-17 xiv 1-21 iv 1-14 xiv 1-15 iv 1-11 xiv 1-11 xxiv 1-13
v 1-15   v 1-20 xv 1-13 v 1-22 xv 1-20 v 1-26 xv 1-11 xxv 1-15
vi 1-11   vi 1-11   vi 1-14   vi 1-11 xvi 1-13 xxvi 1-21
vii 1-16   vii 1-12   vii 1-18   vii 1-11 xvii 1-15 xxvii 1-10
viii 1-18   viii 1-16   viii 1-23   viii 1-11 xviii 1-21 xxviii 1-8
ix 1-11   ix 1-8   ix 1-16   ix 1-8 xix 1-10 xxix 1-11
x 1-14   x 1-12   x 1-10   x 1-8 xx 1-8 xxx 1-11

Monarchia

I liber primus II liber secundus III liber tertius
i 1-6 xi 1-20 i 1-8 xi 1-8 i 1-5 xi 1-12
ii 1-8 xii 1-13 ii 1-8   ii 1-7 xii 1-9
iii 1-10 xiii 1-8 iii 1-17   iii 1-18 xiii 1-7
iv 1-6 xiv 1-11 iv 1-11   iv 1-22 xiv 1-7
v 1-10 xv 1-10 v 1-26   v 1-5 xv 1-10
vi 1-4 xvi 1-5 vi 1-11   vi 1-7  
vii 1-3   vii 1-13   vii 1-8  
viii 1-5 viii 1-15   viii 1-11  
ix 1-3   ix 1-21   ix 1-19  
x 1-6   x 1-10   x 1-20  

Epistole

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ii 1-8 viii 1-5
iii 1-8 ix 1-5
iv 1-5 x 1-6
v 1-30 xi 1-26
vi 1-27 xii 1-9
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Egloghe

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Questio de aqua et terra

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2 12 22 32 42 52 62 72 82
3 13 23 33 43 53 63 73 83
4 14 24 34 44 54 64 74 84
5 15 25 35 45 55 65 75 85
6 16 26 36 46 56 66 76 86
7 17 27 37 47 57 67 77 87
8 18 28 38 48 58 68 78 88
9 19 29 39 49 59 69 79  
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80  

Il Fiore

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Detto d'Amore

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