Giovanni Boccaccio, Leonardo Bruni, & Filippo Villani, The Earliest Lives of Dante — A Passage from The Life of Dante by Filippo Villani (1901)
“ This affair hastened the death of the poet; for death, in truth, visits even the illustrious. Since Guido was occupied by this great crisis in his affairs, and placed little confidence in his own powers, he deemed that the name and eloquence of Dante would be able to turn aside the impending ruin. ”
