Upon this line Boccaccio, Comento , says:⁠—

“A proper thing it is to honor every man, but especially those who are of one and the same profession, as these were with Virgil.”

“A proper thing it is to honor every man, but especially those who are of one and the same profession, as these were with Virgil.”

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Another assertion of Dante’s consciousness of his own power as a poet. ↩