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CH. VI THE LAMP OF MEMORY 247
remember that there will surely be some within the circuit of the disquieted walls who would ask for some other spots than these wherein to walk; for some other forms to meet their sight familiarly: like him who sat so often where the sun struck from the west, to watch the lines of the dome of Florence drawn on the deep sky, or like those, his Hosts, who could bear daily to behold, from their palace chambers, the places where their fathers lay at rest, at the meeting of the dark streets of Verona.1
1 [For the first of these allusions to Dante, see Rogers’s Italy (“Florence”) and Turner’s vignette; the second allusion is to Dante in exile, at the court of Can Grande, and to the tombs of the Scaligers (see Verona and its Rivers).]
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