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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, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
Knowledge comes
The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.
Three sparks—pride, envy, and avarice—have been kindled in all hearts.
Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone.
Purgatorio (1321)
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
There is in hell a place stone-built throughout,
Love and the gracious heart are a single thing...
La Vita Nuova (1293)
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.
Purgatorio (1321)
E'n la sua volontade è nostra pace. In His will is our peace.
O mortal cares insensate, what small worth,
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
It was evening here,
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.
Not in mine eyes alone is Paradise.
When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
The Divine Comedy (1308)
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