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What does "between Feltro and Feltro" mean?
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>>25289773
Obama if he fish
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That fish just eats to poop
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>>25289818
So do I
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>>25289818
he is no different to we
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>>25289773
"Tra feltro e feltro" (between felt and felt) is a famous, heavily debated prophecy from Dante Alighieri's Inferno (Canto I). It refers to the birthplace of the "Veltro" (Greyhound), a prophesied savior figure who will drive greed and corruption (the She-wolf) out of Italy
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>>25289773

“It would be best thou took another road,”
He answered, looking on me weeping still,
“If ’tis thy wish to leave this wild abode.

That savage beast for which thy tears are spilled
Will never once let any man traverse
Her path, but so entangles him he’s killed;

And has a nature vicious and perverse,
Such that her cravings constantly remain,
And when she’s fed she feels her hunger worse.

She’ll wed with multitudes and not restrain
Her appetites, until the Greyhound comes —
He that shall bring about her death in pain.

He will not feed on land or drossy sums,
But rather wisdom, love, and manly virtue:
Feltro and Feltro will bridge the land he’s from.

Low Italy’s destruction he’ll avert,
For which the chaste Camilla died, and three —
Euryalus, Turnus, Nisus — from their hurt;

He will pursue that wolf although she flee
Through every city into hell again,
Where first she dwelt till envy set her free.


The she-wolf is sins of malice (the leopard is sins of lust and the lion is sins of rage). Maybe also political corruption.

‘The Greyhound’ is probably Can Grande della Scala, a Ghibelline aristocrat. He was born in Verona, between Feltro in Venetia and Montefeltro in Romagna. He was Dante's patron and host after Dante was exiled. (The Paradiso was dedicated to him.)

Dante was maybe just flattering the guy who was putting a roof over his head. Or maybe he was trying to encourage him to do what he felt needed doing.
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>>25289833
Good morning, sirs.



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