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Questions regarding literature originally written in Italian, regardless of whether they were written or published in Italy or elsewhere.

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What does Chapter XLVIII in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, Book I, mean?

Machiavelli says that when Roman senators (almost exclusively patricians) saw that only plebeians were in the running for consular tribune, they maintained patrician monopoly on power in one of two wa …
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Numbering of Petrarch's sonnets

tl;dr Depends on how and what you count, yo. Do non-sonnets count? Background (can be safely skipped) Petrarch worked on his sequence to Laura, variously referred to as Il Canzoniere ("The Songbook"), …
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