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 Cimabue thought that in portraiture He held the field; now Giotto hath the cry And all the former fame is turned obscure; Thus hath one Guido from the other reft The glory of our tongue, and there’s perchance One born who shall un-nest both him and him."

Even the qualification in the last line of this speech which Oderesi, honour of Agobbio, illuminator of fair pages, makes to Dante in the terrace for the purgation of Pride, must be balanced by Dante’s reply to Guido's father among the burning tombs (Inferno, x.) [sic].

Cavalcante di Cavalcanti:
 * If by the height of genius thou dost go
 * Through this blind prison house; where is my son?
 * Why is he not with thee?

Rh