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Immortal Four of Italy (The)

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Dante (1265–1321).

Petrarch (1301–1374).

Ariosto (1474–1533), and

Tasso (1544–1595).

“The poets read he oʹer and oʹer,

And most of all the immortal four

Of Italy.”

Longfellow: The Wayside Inn.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.