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quistione f ‎(plural quistioni)

(literary) Alternative form of questione
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXI, page 386:
  Sì mi prescrisser le parole sue, ¶ ch'io lasciai la quistione e mi ritrassi ¶ a dimandarla umilmente chi fue.
  Such limit did its words prescribe to me, ¶ the question I relinquished, and restricted ¶ myself to ask it humbly who it was.