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
race levels situation
The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.
spiritual stars moving
Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.
path faces looks
They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
faults shame greater
Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
deeds-done deeds done
Deed done is well begun.
dream morning ifs
But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
salt path bread
Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
branches doe virtue
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
justice doe pinnacle
Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.
delight range intellect
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.
pedestal divine-comedy inferno
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
pain perfect pleasure
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
motto abandon
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
omnipotence cities people
I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.