Note 38 — Chapter I
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The practical and realistic common sense of the Italians, rejecting chivalrous and ecclesiastical idealism as so much nonsense, is illustrated by the occasional poems of two Florentine painters—Giotto's Canzone on Poverty, and Orcagna's Sonnet on Love. Orcagna, in the latter, criticises the conventional blind and winged Cupid, and winds up with:
L'amore è un trastullo: Non è composto di legno nè di osso; E a molte gente fa rompere il dosso.