biltate
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[edit]biltate f (plural biltati)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of beltà (“beauty”)
- c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato terzo, Capitolo XV [Third treatise, Chapter 15]”, in Convivio [The Banquet][1], Florence: Le Monnier, published 1964, section 13:
- Però dice: qual donna, cioè quale anima, sente sua biltate biasimare per non parere quale parere si conviene, miri in questo essemplo.
- Therefore it says that every woman (that is, every soul) who hears her beauty slighted for not appearing as it ought to appear should gaze upon this example.