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I think of you, O great Dante Alighieri!: A poem

Did you discover your dolce stil nuovo was not in Latin but in Florentine. You had the courage to be unique, as different as a turtle dove among the pigeons. And nobody can conjecture who schooled you to be the genius that you were, achieving the title Of Il Sommo Poeta for posterity from your humble origins of Tuscan poetry, you also fraternised with the writings ofContinue reading “I think of you, O great Dante Alighieri!: A poem “