"«Ladies and gentlemen, once upon a time there was a critic who, affirming with extraordinary warmth the superiority of [[Torquato Tasso]'s Gerusalemme liberata over [[Ludovico Ariosto]|Lodovico Ariosto]], engaged in many quarrels with people who did not think as he did, and thus sustained one after the other no less than fourteen fortunate duels; but on the fifteenth, he fell at last with his chest pierced by the enemy's blade. Then the godfathers, who were very afflicted and were waiting to collect his last wishes, heard him come out in this supreme confession: "And to say that I have not yet read either Orlando furioso or Gerusalemme liberata....""
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