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Sordello's Poem "Blacatz", and its echo in The Valley of Princes.

Sordello's Poem "Blacatz", and its echo in The Valley of Princes.

Update: 2022-04-07
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A look at the Sordello's most famous Provençal Poem "Blacatz" (c. 1240), and how Dante draws inspiration from this poem in his description of the Valley of Princes in Canto VII of the Purgatory.

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Sordello's Poem "Blacatz", and its echo in The Valley of Princes.

Sordello's Poem "Blacatz", and its echo in The Valley of Princes.

Richard Emerson