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We are first introduced to Dante’s best friend Guido Cavalcanti in The Vita Nuova in the XXIV Chapter dedicated to Guido Cavalcanti. Dante believes here that Guido’s heart “[is] still marvelled at the beauty of this gentile Primavera [(Beatrice])” (Vita Nuova 759). The Sonnet for Guido reveals their “brotherly” love towards each other and the support they confined within each other's lives. The “gaze” is quite proven by Dante’s summary of his own work following the poem, where he explains in warm-heartedness the “[happiness]...in [his] heart”, and how “love spoke to [him] in [his] heart”. For viewers their friendship is seen as mutually respectful and open with the distress of love between Dante and Beatrice, and their guelph backgrounds as
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