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“Guido Cavalcanti“
One of these party-goers is Messer Betto Brunelleschi, their splendid company. Guido enigmatically says that while
who was trying to recruit the poet Guido Cavalcanti into they’re in their own house, they can say anything to him
the ranks of wealthy party-givers. But Guido really wants that they want. Then he jumps over a headstone and walks
nothing to do with them. There’s some speculation about away. Betto’s friends have no idea what Guido means, but
why Guido won’t bite he’s a loner, an atheist, etc. so Betto Betto gets it. He’s realized that Guido has just dissed them
and friends decide to taunt him a bit about it. One morning, by saying that the graveyard was their house. In other words,
they find Guido on his favorite walk through the tombs near since they’re so much less educated than he, they’re worse
the center of Florence. Betto asks Guido what good it does off than the dead. Betto and friends have been shamed, and
to spend all his time in deep thoughts if it means avoiding they decide not to tease the intellectual Guido again.
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