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The Well of Saint Clare by Anatole France
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MESSER GUIDO CAVALCANTI

_Guido, di Messer Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti, fu un de' migliori loici
che avesse il mondo, et ottimo filosofo naturale.... E perciò che egli
alquanto tenea della opinione degli Epicuri, si diceva tra la gente
volgare che queste sue speculazioni eran solo in cercare se trovar si
potesse che Iddio non fosse._[1] (The _Decameron_ of Messer Giovanni
Boccaccio, Sixth Day, Novella IX.)

DIM
NON. FVI. ME.
MINI. NON. SVM.
NON. CVRO. DO.
NNIA. ITALIA. AN.
NORVM. XX. HIC.
QVIESCO.[2]

(Inscription from the _Cippus of Donnia Italia_ as read by M.
Jean-François Bladé.)

[Footnote 1: "Guido, son of Messer Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti, was one of
the best Logicians the world held, and a most finished Natural
Philosopher.... And forasmuch as in some degree he held by the opinion
of the Epicureans, it was therefore said among the vulgar folk how that
these his speculations were only pursued for to discover if it might be
there was no God."]

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