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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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Morality is the beauty of Philosophy.
Il Convivio (1304)
For quivering are the Fishes on the horizon,
Now the kind of philosophy under which we proceed in the whole and in the part is moral philosophy or ethics; because the whole was undertaken not for speculation but for practice.
In the midway of this our mortal life,
This audacity of theirs is not new.
Love with delight discourses in my mind
Il Convivio (1304)
St. Thomas Aquinas narrates the life of St. Francis d'Assisi. O MORTAL cares insensate, what small worth, In sooth, doth all those syllogisms fill, Which make you stoop your pinions to the earth!
Incorrigible humanity, therefore, led astray by the giant Nimrod, presumed in its heart to outdo in skill not only nature but the source of its own nature, who is God; and began to build a tower in Sennaar, which afterwards was called Babel (that is, 'confusion'). By this means human beings hoped to climb up to heaven, intending in their foolishness not to equal but to excel their creator.
In that book which is
La Vita Nuova (1293)
And his will is our peace.
The Divine Comedy (1308)
In his arms, my lady lay asleep, wrapped in a veil.
La Vita Nuova (1293)
...Let fly
Christians, be ye more serious in your movements;
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
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