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

Note 307 — Chapter XIII

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In the famous passage of the Furioso where Ariosto pronounces the eulogy of the poets of his day, he mentions Bembo thus (Orl. Fur. xlvi. 15).

Pietro Bembo, che 'l puro e dolce idioma nostro, Levato fuor del volgar uso tetro, Quale esser dee, ci ha co 'l suo esempio mostro.

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