Excerpt from Roberto d''Angiò E I Suoi Tempi, Vol. 1
Al Re, che solennemente lo proclamava degno della corona d'' alloro e della immortalità, Francesco Petrarca pro metteva di dedicare un poema magnifico quanto 1'' Africa, nel quale avrebbe cantato con venust''a virgiliana i mira colin del più grande dei principi contemporanei. Di quali miracoli intendesse parlare il Petrarca noi non sappiamo, nè forse sapeva egli stesso, poichè Roberto d'' Angiò, che il Boccaccio descrive assai mediocre d'' intelletto, non aveva mai compiuta una sola impresa militare o politica che fosse stata degna di epopea; ma la glorificazione iperbolica del cantore di Scipione rimane sempre come uno dei segni assai caratteristici del destino singolare di un uomo come Ro berto, a cui più volte la fortuna ed i contemporanei parvero aprire le vie della gloria, mentre altrettante volte gli stessi artefici della sua potenza, con non preordinata concordia, gliele chiusero tutte in maniera definitiva ed inesorabile.
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