SOURCE: "Bertran de Born and Sordello: The Poetry of Politics in Dante's Comedy" in PMLA, Vol. 94, No. 3, May 1979, pp. 395-404.
In the following essay, Dante's treatment of poets in his writings is perceived to serve his political themes.
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