Versi d’Amore e Prose di Romanzi

In the twenty-sixth canto of Dante’s Purgatorio, the pilgrim-poet meets Guido Guinizzelli, whom Dante acknowledges as his teacher and master. When Guinizzelli asks the pilgrim-poet why he is so awestruck by him, Dante proclaims, “It is your sweet lines that, for as long as modern usage lasts, will s...

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