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The sibling of a more famous admirer of this poet composed a study of this poet’s “world” and “pilgrimage,” titled for his “Shadow.” The author of many “double works of art” [emphasize] based on this poet made an 1861 translation of a book by him that begins by noting the “incipit” in “that part of the book of my memory.” This poet’s given name was taken by an author who coined the word “yesteryear” in a translation of François Villon’s Ballade and translated this poet’s prosimetrum on courtly love written in the (*) “sweet new (10[1])style.” The poet of “The Blessed Damozel” often painted his wife Elizabeth Siddal as this poet’s (-5[2])muse, who, in a poem’s third section, guides this poet through paradise. For 10 (10[1])points, Christina Rossetti’s brother took the name of what poet of La Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy? (10[2])■END■

ANSWER: Dante Alighieri [or Dante Alighieri; or Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; accept The Shadow of Dante] (The Shadow of Dante is by Maria Francesca Rossetti.)
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