Anyone know the poet Bob Dylan refers to in "Tangled Up and Blue"?

The poet he talks about in this verse

The poet he talks about in this verse.

"She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe

I thought you'd never say hello, she said, you look like the silent type

And then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me

Written by an Italian poet from the thirteenth century"

"Every one of those words rang true and glowed like burning coal

Pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul

From me to you; tangled up in blue"