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
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!
life dark journey
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
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.
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.
running religious pain
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
journey half way
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.