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Dante Alighieri

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O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense.


— Dante Alighieri


#repentance #sorrowful #inspirational

And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.


— Dante Alighieri


#dying #death

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.


— Dante Alighieri


#avarice #envy #fire #hearts #pride

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.


— Dante Alighieri


#costs #how #much #thinks

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.


— Dante Alighieri


#i #stone #wept #within

From a little spark may burst a flame.


— Dante Alighieri


#flame #little #may #spark

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.


— Dante Alighieri


#any #blast #blows #firmly #set

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.


— Dante Alighieri


#good #good and bad #more #perfect #susceptible

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.


— Dante Alighieri


#cause #go #present #present world #sought

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.


— Dante Alighieri


#cannot #eternal #fire #heat #separated






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The ensuing line L'ombra sua torna ch'era dipartita ("his spirit which had left us returns") is poignantly absent from the empty tomb. (The city council of Florence finally passed a motion rescinding Dante's sentence in June 2008. In 2007 a reconstruction of Dante's face was undertaken in a collaborative project.

: /ˈdænti/ US /ˈdɑːnteɪ/; Italian: [ˈdante]; c. His Divine Comedy originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

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