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She is the sum of nature's universe.
To her perfection all of beauty tends.

— Dante Alighieri La Vita Nuova (1293)

Ella è quanto de ben pò far natura;
per essemplo di lei bieltà si prova.

Original text (Italian)

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Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar.

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
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

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.

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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

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