Henry:
> I thought the human muse figure came in with Orpheus & Eurydice.
> but I guess that's still on the level of myth.
And to that we could add Catullus and Clodia, Ovid and Julia, and Properitus
and -- who?
But these are more figures towards whom the writing of poetry is directed
(analogous to the Dark Lady rather than the young Man in Shakespeare) than
they are muse figures -- I'd still want to argue that something new comes in
with the dolce stil nuovo.
Comments, Erminia?
Robin
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