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
longing no-hope
We have no hope and yet we live in longing.
motto abandon
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
sweet sweet-life
The experience of this sweet life.
sad justice divine
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
death dying dies
These have not the hope to die.
sight circles squares
As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
moments capacity ability
At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
blow wind may
Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
book dark journey
Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
stars moving sun
Love can move the Sun and the stars.
blow idols wind
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
together goes-on steps
Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
beautiful taken heart
Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona, Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte, Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..." "Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart, Seized him with my beautiful form That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me. Love, which pardons no beloved from loving, took me so strongly with delight in him That, as you see, it still abandons me not...
memories book pages
In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.