/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · 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.
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