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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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