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How often since that time, down to the days of Gibbon and Niebuhr, have the same ruins stirred men's minds to the same reflections! This double current of feeling is also recognizable in the 'Dittamondo' of Fazio degli Uberti, composed about the year 1360 a description of visionary travels, in which the author is accompanied by the old geographer Solinus, as Dante was by Virgil.
Others preface what they have to tell with a baroque imitation of Dante's first canto, and provide themselves with some allegorical comparison, to take the place of Virgil. Uberti, for example, chose Solinus for his geographical poem the 'Dittamondo' and Giovanni Santi, Plutarch for his encomium on Federigo of Urbino.
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