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"Quanto la cosa è più perfetta, più senta il bene, e così la doglienza."
Divine ComedyAnother way my sapient Guide conducts me — Divine Comedy
"Another way my sapient Guide conducts me Forth from the quiet to the air that trembles; And to a place I come where nothing shines."
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The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed c. 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of Western literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it existed in the Western Church by the 14th ce
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"Thou hast my heart so with desire disposed To the adventure, with these words of thine, That to my first intent I have returned. Now go, for one sole will is in us both, Thou Leader, and thou Lord, and Master thou." Thus said I to him; and when he had moved, I entered on the deep and savage way."
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