>ALLUSIONS
>5. A certain Pietro Fatinello, citizen of Lucca, after a misspent and
>irreligious youth, was imprisoned and immediately became pious [the
>medieval poet?].
>
Quite possibly, allowing for some novelistic accretions :-) Pietro de'
Faitinelli certainly suffered prolonged exile from Lucca and wrote poetry
of high moral seriousness - it's not hard to see how exile might become
prison and moral seriousness, piety, in biographical re-tellings, with a
conventionally mis-spent youth thrown in for good measure. See Mario
Marti, ed., _Poeti giocosi del tempo di Dante_ (Milan: Rizzoli, 1956),
415-17.
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