A quel pietoso fonte, onde siam tutti,
S'assembra ogni beltà che qua si vede,
Più c'altra cosa alle persone accorte

Translation: That fount of mercy, whence we all exist, Every beauty seen here [on earth] resembles, More than anything else to knowing persons | Translated by Luciano Rebay, Invitation to Italian Poetry (1969), p. 77 | To those who are wise, nothing more resembles that merciful spring whence all derive than every beauty to be found here | Translated by Christopher Ryan, The poetry of Michelangelo: An Introduction (1988), p. 103 | Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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