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contrary to what others may have thought. Manfred concludes his speech by telling Dante that his sentence in
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Thirteenth Century: Hospitaller Grand Master Boniface of Calamandrana". In Borchardt, Karl; Jaspert, Nikolas; Nicholson, Helen J (eds.).
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Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
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