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... Brunetto is , rather , garrulous , and he speaks his own authentic Florentine idiom , naming himself proudly even after the pilgrim has recognized him and called him by name ( lines 30 and 32 ) . Moreover , Brunetto touches the hem of ...
... Brunetto is , rather , garrulous , and he speaks his own authentic Florentine idiom , naming himself proudly even after the pilgrim has recognized him and called him by name ( lines 30 and 32 ) . Moreover , Brunetto touches the hem of ...
Page 85
... Brunetto can have nothing to do . The reply , which must be as dark to Brunetto as Brunetto's later prophecy is to the pilgrim , uses a set of symbols with which we are familiar , because we have read the first canto of the poem , but ...
... Brunetto can have nothing to do . The reply , which must be as dark to Brunetto as Brunetto's later prophecy is to the pilgrim , uses a set of symbols with which we are familiar , because we have read the first canto of the poem , but ...
Page 86
... Brunetto than the hard margin of the brook , la margine dura on which he stands . Brunetto is at last only a story , a bearer of a text , for so the pilgrim calls Brunetto's dark prophecy of the future : " CiĆ² che narrate di mio corso ...
... Brunetto than the hard margin of the brook , la margine dura on which he stands . Brunetto is at last only a story , a bearer of a text , for so the pilgrim calls Brunetto's dark prophecy of the future : " CiĆ² che narrate di mio corso ...
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The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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