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LATINI, BRUNETTO (c. 1210-C. 1294) , Italian philosopher and scholar, was born in Florence, and belonged to the Guelph
refuge
great
rhetoric , not only in knowing how to speak well, but how to write well. . . . He both began and directed the growth of the Florentines, both in making them ready in speaking well and in knowing how to guide and direct our republic according to the rules of politics." He was the author of various works in prose
prose
century ), and in Italian his poem Tesoretto, rhymed couplets in heptasyllabic metre, a sort of abridgment put in allegorical form, the earliest Italian didactic verse. He is famous as the friend and counsellor of Dante
For the Tresor see P. Chabville's edition (1863) ; for the Tesoro, Gaiter's edition (1878) ; for the Tesoretto, B. Wiese's study in Zeitschrift fitr romanische Philologie, vii. See also the biographical and critical accounts of Brunetto Latini
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