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Title: Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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- did verily depart in death to haveexperience of the other world. Dante had been about seven years in exile—^he was perhapsat the moment staying at a monastery near Spezia, makinga party for himself and digging that fiery pit in Malebolgein which to plant head-foremost the papal traitor who wasdeserting Rome for Avignon—^when Corso Donati, who had,strangely enough,^ married a daughter of Dantes friend, thegreat Ghibelline condottiere, Uguccione della Faggiuola, suecumbed to her cajoleries and her fathers promises, and, furious ^ Strangely, too, Dante married one of the Donati—possibly a sister of hisgreat adversary Corso. Anyhow, Dante met in Paradise Piccarda, Corsessister, for whom he evidently had great affection. See Medieval Italy, p. 518. 98
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