Inspiration
Beatrice "Bice" Portinari was Dante's inspiration and "true" love, whom he met when he was 9 and she was 8. However, she married another man and died three years later. This is probably the basis for the elder Beatrice Baudelaire (whom Snicket met when he was 11 and she was 10; he fell in love with her, but she married another man (Bertrand Baudelaire) and eventually died.
Charles Baudelaire, from which the protagonists' surnames are derived, wrote a poem called "La Beatrice."
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Famous quotes containing the word inspiration:
“As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognise the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.”
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“Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.”
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