...ry superior man (for that age), says Aretino parenthetically. Like Alexander Gill, he is now remembered only as the schoolmaster of a great poet, and that he did his duty well may be inferred from Dante 's speaking of him gratefully as one who by times taught him how man eternizes himself. This, and what Villani says of his refining the Tuscan idiom (for so we understand his farli scorti in ben...