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... exile ; the far more varied genius of Tasso was consigned , in another century , to a mad- man's cell . Petrarch lived on to the verge of human life , rich , honoured of all men , speaking his thoughts on all subjects with absolute ...
... exile ; the far more varied genius of Tasso was consigned , in another century , to a mad- man's cell . Petrarch lived on to the verge of human life , rich , honoured of all men , speaking his thoughts on all subjects with absolute ...
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... He was a man of the world , mingling in all the society of his age . Dante was an exile and a solitary , who spake as one that came from beyond the grave ; but what he spake was for all time . 16 66 CHAPTER II . THE EPISTLE TO POSTERITY .
... He was a man of the world , mingling in all the society of his age . Dante was an exile and a solitary , who spake as one that came from beyond the grave ; but what he spake was for all time . 16 66 CHAPTER II . THE EPISTLE TO POSTERITY .
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... exile at Arezzo , on Monday , July 20 , 1304 . Riches I held in sovereign contempt , not because I did not wish to have them , but because I hated the labour and anxiety which are the inseparable companions of wealth . I cared not for ...
... exile at Arezzo , on Monday , July 20 , 1304 . Riches I held in sovereign contempt , not because I did not wish to have them , but because I hated the labour and anxiety which are the inseparable companions of wealth . I cared not for ...
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... exile , I spent at Pisa ; my ninth and subsequent years in transalpine Gaul , on the left bank of the Rhone . Avignon was the city's name , where the Roman Pontiff maintains , and has long maintained , the Church of Christ ; although a ...
... exile , I spent at Pisa ; my ninth and subsequent years in transalpine Gaul , on the left bank of the Rhone . Avignon was the city's name , where the Roman Pontiff maintains , and has long maintained , the Church of Christ ; although a ...
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... exile at Avignon , where I had been since the close of my childhood ; for custom is second nature . There I had already begun to be known , and my acquaintance to be sought by men of eminence , though why , I confess now I know not ...
... exile at Avignon , where I had been since the close of my childhood ; for custom is second nature . There I had already begun to be known , and my acquaintance to be sought by men of eminence , though why , I confess now I know not ...
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