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Excerpt from The Scientific Knowledge of Dante: A Lecture Delivered at the Victoria University of Manchester Before the Members of the Manchester Dante Society
L'un de' famigliari di quel sommo Ippocrate. Purg. XXIX, v. 136-7.
IN May, 1265, was born in the city of Florence - the most illustrious of its many illustrious citizens Dante Alighieri, poet, philosopher, and physician; but we have it on the authority of Dante himself that he simply desired to be designated poet.
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