The veltro is the greyhound that Virgil announces in Canto I as the deliverer who will make the she-wolf die: it will feed not on earth or metal, but on wisdom, love and virtue, and will be born "between felt and felt." It will save the humble Italy for which Camilla, Euryalus, Turnus and Nisus died. The poem does not name it, and the expression "between felt and felt" is left without solution in the text.
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