Victor Hugo learnt poetry by reading and translating the Latin poets and kept inscribing them within his work. As an idealistic and humanistic project completing a tradition within which latinity is both matrix and emblem, the Hugolian palimpseste is an absolute masterpiece.
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Victor Hugo learnt poetry by reading and translating the Latin poets and kept inscribing them within his work. As an idealistic and humanistic project completing a tradition within which latinity is both matrix and emblem, the Hugolian palimpseste is an absolute masterpiece.
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