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Canto the Third

XI

Some persons say that Dante meant theology
     By Beatrice, and not a mistress-I,
Although my opinion may require apology,
     Deem this a commentator's fantasy,
Unless indeed it was from his own knowledge he
     Decided thus, and show'd good reason why;
I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics
     Meant to personify the mathematics.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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