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On 21 July 1900 the official reconnaissance of
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followed by bitter controversies over the author's self-congratulation, the overabundance of details unfavorable to the poet's memory and the absence of reflections on his intellectual greatness. However, though inaccurate and inappropriate in some descriptions, he offered a testimony of the
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