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1265–1321 Italy
Dante Alighieri (c. 30 May 1265 – 13 September 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
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Love hath so long possessed me for his own
La Vita Nuova (1293)
She is the sum of nature's universe.
La Vita Nuova (1293)
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
Purgatorio (1321)
I saw within Its depth how It conceives
The Divine Comedy (1308)
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
The Divine Comedy (1308)
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
Purgatorio (1321)
Justice does not descend from its pinnacle.
Purgatorio (1321)
Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.
La Vita Nuova (1293)
How long in women lasts the flame of love,
Purgatorio (1321)
Go forth and preach impostures to the world,
From little spark may burst a mighty flame.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
No greater grief than to remember days
Inferno (1321)
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays.
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.
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