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
path paradise hell
The path to paradise begins in hell.
inferno
Love insists the loved loves back
kindness waiting be-kind
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
strong men innocence
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
travel art nature
Nature is the art of God.
eternal-love creation made
Eternal love made me.
passion soul noble
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
beauty spiritual soul
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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.
peace father humility
They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.
causes world divine-comedy
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
heart pride men
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
eye heaven wheels
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
ice fire heaven
Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.