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GUIDO CAVALCANTI
INTRODUCTION
"Cimabue thought that in portraiture
He held the field; now Giotto hath the cry
And all the former fame is turned obscure;
Thus hath one Guido from the other reft
The glory of our tongue, and there’s perchance
One born who shall un-nest both him and him."
Even the qualification in the last line of this speech which Oderesi, honour of Agobbio, illuminator of fair pages, makes to Dante in the terrace for the purgation of Pride, must be balanced by Dante’s reply to Guido's father among the burning tombs (Inferno, x.) [sic].
Cavalcante di Cavalcanti:
"If by the height of genius thou dost go
Through this blind prison house; where is my son?
Why is he not with thee?
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