Just looking around

Aug 2003

Florence

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Poet

Poetry, Thinking about Beatrice, Being a White Guelf, Creating poetic concordances of medieval thought, Hangin out with Guido and Lapo, Being the first modern human, Kicking off the renaissance

where to start...Virgil's Georgics, Ecologues, and Aeneid, Augustine's The City of God, Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy, I reread my copy of the Thebaid more often than you'd think, De Rurum Natura, The Metamorphoses, Cicero's Somnium Scipionis

Well, when I was nine I fell in love with this girl named
Beatrice and I've loved her ever since. She married another
man and then died so that didn't work out too well. Then, my best friend Guido was exiled and I felt bad because I was magistrate at the time. By the time I got him back in, he was sick and died. THEN, the black geulfs came to power and I had to go into exile. After all that, my most humbling moment (for sure) was backing off that il dolce stil nuovo tip. What was I thinking with that?
Turn offs: translations of my work (Ciardi, Pinsky, Merwin,
Mandelbaum, watch your backs!), the weather outside of
Tuscany

Uh, people who believe in the separation of church and
state. Girls named Beatrice. People into ironical
punishments. And anyone who is currently working on a
dictionary.