Bocafoli and Plara, mannerists: one of the sensuous school, the other of the pompously pure; imaginary personages, but to whom we may give real names.
The belief in personal experience is very strong here.
The third of these, vol. i. p. 168, is very characteristic of the state of Sordello's, and therefore, at that moment, of his author's mind. The poet who makes others see is he who deals with abstractions: who makes the mood do duty for the man.
Walter Savage Landor.