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Both then proceeded to Italy, and were present at the Dante festivities at Florence, which in Potgieter's case resulted in a poem in twenty stanzas, Florence ( Haarlem, 1868 ).

In Holland Potgieter's influence has been very marked and beneficial ; but his own style, that of ultra-purist, was at times somewhat forced, stilted and not always easily understood.