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GUIDO GUERRA *---- ? - 1272 AGE : *-- ?
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC
FLORENCE.
DESCRIPTION
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GUIDO GUERRA: A LEADING GUELPH IN TUSCANY FROM 1250 TO 1266, APPOINTED VICAR OF TUSCANY BY CHARLES OF
ANJOU. HE DIED IN 1272. HE PLAYED A DISTINGUISHED PART AT BENEVENTO IN 1265, WHERE MANFRED DIED & BEFORE THE
DISASTER AT MONTAPERTI IN 1260, WHEN THE GUELPHS WENT DOWN TO DEFEAT, HE WAS ONE OF THE NOBLES WHO HAD
VOTED WITH TEGGHIAIO AGAINST THE EXPEDITION, KNOWING THE SIENESE HAD BEEN REINFORCED WITH GERMAN
MERCENARIES.
TEGGHIAIO ALDOBRANDO *---- ? - 1260 + AGE : *-- ?
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC
FLORENCE.
DESCRIPTION
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TEGGHIAIO ALDOBRANDI: A FLORENTINE GUELPH WHO, WITH GUIDO GUERRA, TRIED TO DISSUADE HIS PARTY FROM THE
CONFLICT THAT LED TO THE GUELPH DISASTER AT MONTAPERTI IN 1260. HE FOUGHT COURAGEOUSLY & TOOK REFUGE AT
LUCCA WITH OTHER DEFEATED GUELPHS.
THE 3 SPIRITS (VOICE?): & THE 3 SPIRITS (VOICE?):
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Venian ver' noi, e ciascuna gridava: Wait, you., who seem to us,
«Sòstati tu ch'a l'abito ne sembri by By your clothes, you are
esser alcun di nostra terra prava». to be someone from our perverse city.
DANTE IGNORES THEM AND READS HIS VERSIFICATION OF BRUNETTO’S DEPARTURE TO THE AUDIENCE..
DANTE:
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Poi si rivolse, e parve di coloro Then he turned back, and seemed like one
che corrono a Verona il drappo verde who runs for the green cloth, at Verona,
per la campagna; e parve di costoro through the open fields: and seemed
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quelli che vince, non colui che perde. one of those who wins, not one who loses.
VIRGIL:
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A le lor grida il mio dottor s'attese; My teacher listened to their cries,
volse 'l viso ver' me, e «Or aspetta», turned his face towards me, and said:
disse, «a costor si vuole esser cortese. Wait, now: courtesy is owed them,
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E se non fosse il foco che saetta and if there were not this fire, that the place’s
la natura del loco, i' dicerei nature rains down, I would say that you
che meglio stesse a te che a lor la fretta». were more hasty than them.
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As we rested, they started their former laments again, and when they reached us, all three of them formed
themselves into a circle. Wheeling round, as champion wrestlers, naked and oiled, do, looking for a hold or an
advantage, before they grasp and strike one another, each directed his face at me, so that his neck was turned, all the
time, in an opposite direction to his feet.
RUSTICUCCI, GUERRA & TEGGHIAIO, (OR JUST RUSTICUCCI) APPEAR NOW, IF NOT BEFORE.
DANTE, MIFFED AT VIRGIL’S REPROACH, STANDS STIFFLY AND DOES NOT TAKE NOTES.
JACOPO RUSTICUCCI:
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E «Se miseria d'esto loco sollo And one of them began: If the misery
rende in dispetto noi e nostri prieghi», of this sinful place, and our scorched, stained
cominciò l'uno, «e 'l tinto aspetto e brollo, look, renders us, and our prayers, contemptible,