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>When asked about what made him fell in love with Beatrice, Dante replied: "Her delicate white feet that used to rest on my face after days of travelling, which shapes the feet like clay shaped men. I'd spent hours undoing the damage Italy's terrain casted upon her toes, and cried when dead skin came out of it, for it meant part of her godlike feet were no more. Oh how i mourn her smell!".
- Dante, a biography by Boccacio
What are some good writer anecdotes?