Marco Lombardo
Marco Lombardo was a courtier from medieval Lombardy. His date of birth and true identity are unknown, but he is thought to have lived during the second half of the thirteenth century. He is also believed to have served many courts and possibly those of Gherardo III da Camino and Ugolino della Gherardesca. He was widely known in medieval Italy and appeared as a character of anecdotes and short stories even before Dante's creation of the ''Divine Comedy''.Marco was commonly regarded as a very courteous and well-learned man, but disdainful and choleric. He appears as a character in Canto 16 of ''Purgatorio'', the second canticle of Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy'', to discuss morality and corruption. Marco asks Dante the pilgrim to pray for his soul.
He is also mentioned anecdotally in a thirteenth-century collection of short stories entitled ''Novellino'', Francesco da Buti's commentary to the ''Divine Comedy'', and the ''Nuova Cronica'' by Giovanni Villani. Provided by Wikipedia
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5by Giuseppe Lombardo, Mariacristina Parravano, Nicholas Devaney, Marco Lombardo, Sebastiano SerraoGet full text
Published 2012-12-01
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9by Marco Lombardo, Mariacristina Parravano, Sebastiano Serrao, Lucia Ziccardi, Daniela Giannini, Giuseppe LombardoGet full text
Published 2016-01-01
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11by Sebastiano Serrao, Giuseppe Lombardo, Giovanni Desiderio, Lucio Buratto, Domenico Schiano-Lomoriello, Marco Pileri, Marco LombardoGet full text
Published 2014-01-01
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12by Larisa Lvova, Fabrizio Caroleo, Alessandra Garau, Vito Lippolis, Luca Giorgi, Vieri Fusi, Nelsi Zaccheroni, Marco Lombardo, Luca Prodi, Corrado Di Natale, Roberto PaolesseGet full text
Published 2018-06-01
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13by Anna Perazzi, Chiara Gomiero, Livio Corain, Ilaria Iacopetti, Enrico Grisan, Marco Lombardo, Giuseppe Lombardo, Gianni Salvalaio, Roberta Contin, Marco Patruno, Tiziana Martinello, Antonella PeruffoGet full text
Published 2020-04-01
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14by Giovanna Picone, Concettina Cappadone, Alice Pasini, Joseph Lovecchio, Marilisa Cortesi, Giovanna Farruggia, Marco Lombardo, Alessandra Gianoncelli, Lucia Mancini, Menk Ralf H., Sandro Donato, Emanuele Giordano, Emil Malucelli, Stefano IottiGet full text
Published 2020-03-01
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