The Tragedy of a Troubadour An Intepretation of Brownings Sordello
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Why did Salinguerra speak to Tito of Trent, the Kaiser s representative, in tones that made me believe he only looked upon the army as a mere tool, and not as a number of men built up of flesh and blood ? You both wish the outcome of everything to be the profit of the Ghibellin faction. Nothing is considered as a means whereby to relieve the wretchedness of the individual. Every thought is for "the cause. " In the opposite camp, Azzo does likewise. And what means do these Guelphs employ to gain... their ends ? Are their methods your methods ? worse or better ? " Alas ! Guelphs and Ghibellins are proved alike, 45 THE TRAGEDY OF A TROUBADOUR and after a long debate Sordello and Palma come to the conclusion that there is little to choose be- tween the deeds of blaze and blood of one faction and the answering deeds of blaze and blood of the other. " Both sides do worse than nothing, " exclaimed Sordello bitterly, and with his never-to-be-crushed conceit he immediately reads into his circumstances some higher meaning and message which his intense temperament imagines that it is called upon to interpret.
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