When we further remember that Dante left the Convito little more than begun, and consequently, no doubt, unrevised, it will be clear that very little inference can be drawn as to its date, from the fact that certain opinions expressed in it are retracted in the Commedia.
"Dante: His Times and His Work"
Arthur John Butler
But the work of the unrevised version will remain unaffected by each of these futile exercitations.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
The text of the 1795 version was almost unrevised for the 1809 edition.
"The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III)"
Philip Freneau