Quotes from Saverio Bettinelli's books, and about them
The Valley of Decision on Lettere Virgiliane: “…in the noble household of Valdu, from its lady's name-day to the death of a pet canary; but his own tastes inclined to the elegant Bettinelli, whose Lettere Virgiliane had so conclusively shown Dante to be a writer of barbarous doggerel; and among the dilettanti of the day one heard less of…”