Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it has not… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Whoso laments, that we must doff this garb Of frail mortality, thenceforth to live Immortally above, he hath not seen The sweet… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse; Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto Per più fiate gli occhi ci… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
