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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

— Dante Alighieri

Vien dietro a me, e lascia dir le genti.

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

La Vita Nuova (1293)

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

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)

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