This has generally been supposed to be Sordello the Troubadour. But is it he? Is it Sordello the Troubadour, or Sordello the Podestà of Verona? or are they one and the same person? After much research, it is not easy to decide the question, and to
“Single out
Sordello, compassed murkily about
With ravage of six long sad hundred years.”
“Single out Sordello, compassed murkily about With ravage of six long sad hundred years.”
Yet as far as it is possible to learn it from various conflicting authorities,