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
pain cities people
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people
littles bitterness faults
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
light sight long
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
flames grace doe
I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
butterfly mean leaving
Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?
pain perfect pleasure
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
water shore turns
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
pedestal divine-comedy inferno
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
astrology
Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
language muse destroying
Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
men wings anxiety
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
Go right on and listen as thou goest.
inferno
They yearn for what they fear for.
heard wells
The well heeded well heard.