Word: folco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with some modifications, from Provence. With the Provencal style came the Provencal subject: the cult of courtly love and the service of the lady fair. In Dante's life the lady fair was Beatrice. A 14th century biographer reports, not altogether reliably, that she was a daughter of Folco Portinari, a Florentine nobleman, and that she looked like "a little angel." Dante, the account continues, met Beatrice when he was nine and she was eight, and he swore to love her forever. On the evidence of his poetry, he adored her from a distance. But the affair was nevertheless...
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