Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìaand later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
CountryItaly
desire without-hope
Without hope we live in desire.
desire flight foolish
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
fashion morning stars
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."
time
Everywhere is here and every when is now.
men judging judgment
O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
causes world ifs
If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.
race levels situation
The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.
causes world divine-comedy
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
inspirational happiness sad
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
enthusiasm dawn this-day
Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
pain happy-times misery
... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)
eye heaven earth
The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.
flames littles sparks
From a little spark may burst a flame.
girl nice nice-girl
How come I never meet any nice girls?