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... Italy , and while there he may have met the great Italian writers Petrarch and Boccaccio . Certainly he became familiar with their writing , and with the work of the greatest of all Italian poets , Dante , who had died fifty years ...
... Italy , and while there he may have met the great Italian writers Petrarch and Boccaccio . Certainly he became familiar with their writing , and with the work of the greatest of all Italian poets , Dante , who had died fifty years ...
Page 114
... Italy and France used theirs . Spenser wrote his great national epic , The Faerie Queene , in order , as he put it , to " overgo Ariosto , " that is , to go one better than Ariosto , author of the great Italian epic Orlando Furioso ...
... Italy and France used theirs . Spenser wrote his great national epic , The Faerie Queene , in order , as he put it , to " overgo Ariosto , " that is , to go one better than Ariosto , author of the great Italian epic Orlando Furioso ...
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... Italy , his imagination haunted by vivid characters from the Italian Renais- sance . He was fascinated by the paradoxes of the Italian Renaissance , such as its combination of paganism and sensuality with a ritualized Christianity , and ...
... Italy , his imagination haunted by vivid characters from the Italian Renais- sance . He was fascinated by the paradoxes of the Italian Renaissance , such as its combination of paganism and sensuality with a ritualized Christianity , and ...
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