bieltate
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bieltate f (plural bieltati)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of beltà (“beauty”)
- c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato terzo, Capitolo VIII [Third treatise, Chapter 8]”, in Convivio [The Banquet][1], Florence: Le Monnier, published 1964, section 21:
- Ultimamente quando dico: Però qual donna sente sua bieltate, conchiudo, sotto colore d’ammonire altrui, lo fine a che fatta fue tanta biltade
- Finally, when I say And so let every woman who hears her beauty, I disclose, under the pretense of admonishing someone else, the end for which such beauty was made