Possible Clues:

• Fairly slow (mus.)
• An Italian poet was a bit slow
• Moderately slow piece of music
• Article by Italian writer going fairly slowly
• Not so fast
• A new poet progressing slowly
• Unhurried pace of a new comedy writer?
• Man put in money for bet slowly
• An Italian who wrote slowly
• An initial bit with that infernal poet could be rather slow, by the sound of it