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Title: Ravenna, a study
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hutton, Edward, 1875-
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent New York, E.P. Dutton
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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he answer ?Dante replied: * He told me that he and his companions weretoo little to remember much about him; but that I mightlearn what I wanted to know from the older fish, who wouldbe able to give me the news I asked for. Thereupon the doge at once ordered Dante to be servedwith a fine large fish. Thus Dante called attention to his great achievement, bywhich I suppose he hoped at once to vindicate his dignity asa great man, certainly greater than any one present, and bythis means to lend importance to his mission. Whatever mayhave been the personal result of his sally, it did his mission nogood at all. When the official interview took place Dante,if;we may believe something of the apocryphal Letter ofDante to Guido da Polenta, began to address the doge inLatin and was bidden to speak in ItaUan or to obtain aninterpreter. His mission was a failure and Venice, who in theperson of her doge did her best to show either her ignoranceof the great poet who did her the honour of crossing her
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c^ivlt S. CIOVANXI P.ATTISTA. RAVENNA IN THE MIDDLE AGE 219 Piazza or of her philistine contempt of him, lives in the DivineComedy only as an illustration of Hell: Thus we from bridge to bridge . . . Passd on; and to the summit reaching, stood To view another gap, within the round Of Malebolge, other bootless pangs. Marvellous darkness shadowd oer the place. In the Venetian arsenal as boils Through wintry months tenacious pitch, to smear Their unbound vessels. . . . So not by force of fire but art divine Boiled here a glutinous thick mass, that round Limed all the shore. On his way back to Ravenna by land, for the Venetiansadded to their shame by refusing him the sea passage, he caughta fever in the marshes and returned to Ravenna only to die:the mightiest of all those—emperors and kings—who lie inthat generale sepolcro di santissimi corpi.^^I That was in 1321; and with the death of Dante our interest/in Ravenna again becomes cold. Guido Novello soon fell,driven out of Ravenna, ne

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