SOURCE: "The Significance of Terza Rima," in Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1983, pp. 3-16.
In the following essay, Dante's terza rima is seen as a model for the "synthesis of time and meaning into history."
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