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Updated: June 17, 2025
Thy countrymen shall too soon help thee to understand me." Virgil now called Dante away from Oderisi, and bade him notice the ground on which they were treading. It was pavement, wrought all over with figures, like sculptured tombstones.
Dante, describing how, on the first terrace of Purgatory, he walked stooping, to be on a level with Oderisi, who went bowed to the ground by the ponderous burden of the pride he had cherished on earth, says 'I went walking with this heavy-laden soul, just as oxen walk in the yoke': this picture almost always comes to me with the words of the Lord, 'Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me. Their intent is, 'Take the other end of my yoke, doing as I do, being as I am. Think of it a moment: to walk in the same yoke with the Son of Man, doing the same labour with him, and having the same feeling common to him and us!
The poet replied by exclaiming, "Art thou not Oderisi, the glory of Agubbio, the master of the art of illumination?" "Ah!" said Oderisi, "Franco of Bologna has all the glory now. His colours make the pages of books laugh with beauty, compared with what mine do.
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