 Complete the following phrase:  13th-century Tuscany was in a unique situation. The Tuscans spoke a dialect that closely resembled Latin and afterward became, almost exclusively, the language of literature, and which was already regarded at the end of the 13th century as surpassing other dialects. The Tuscan tongue is better suited to the letter or literature wrote Antonio da Tempo of Padua, born about 1275. After the fall of the Hohenstaufen at the 