Note 34 — V IS THERE A POETIC VIEW OF THE WORLD?
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The second type I take to be represented, with obvious differences, for Dante by the ‘philosophical’ love of Guido Guinicelli, the ‘father of love poets and my own’ (Purg. xxvi. 97); there is no evidence that he knew anything of this part of Plato; in any case, of course, this love is for him excited only by woman. The amore of Empedocles is mentioned in Inf. xii. 42; Empedocles himself, as well as Plato, is in Limbo (Inf. iv. 138).