why does everyone think dylan is referring to dante in "tangled up in blue?" He sings "an Italien poet from the fifteenth century" but dante is from the thirteenth. Not Petrarch either. on the earlier recorded version (nyc?) he does sing - clearly - "thirteenth century" so the dante association is obvious. Obscured on the released version.
Perhaps it just vocally scanned better, or there wasn't wanted such a tight mapping. anyways everyone gets this wrong, even Bono in a recent rollingstone interview. Christ, read the lyrics and do your homework. It is a suggestion, not a tight correspondance.