for the first issue of the brotherhood's magazine, "the germ", published early in 1850, rossetti contributed a poem, "the blessed damozel", and a story about a fictional early italian artist inspired by a vision of a woman who bids him combine the human and the divine in his art. rossetti was always more interested in the medieval than in the modern side of the movement, working on translations of dante and other medieval italian poets, and adopting the stylistic characteristics of the early italians.