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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2

CHAPTER VIII
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It would be easy to illustrate what he has borrowed from Lucretius, or to point out that the pathos of Clorinda's apparition to Tancredi after death is a debt to Petrarch.

It may, however, suffice here to indicate six phrases taken straight from Dante; since the _Divine Comedy_ was little studied in Tasso's age, and his selection of these lines reflects credit on his taste.

These are: Onorate l'altissimo campione! (iii.

73: _Inf._ iv.) Goffredo intorno gli occhi gravi e tardi (vii.

58: _Inf._.


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