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Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5 (of 7), Italian Literature, Part 2

Note 143 — Chapter XI

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Cantù quotes the prologue of a MS. play which goes so far as to apologize for the scene not being laid at Athens (Lett. It. p. 471):

Benchè l'usanza sia Che ogni commedia Si soglia fare a Atene, Non so donde si viene Che questa non grecizza, Anzi fiorentinizza.

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