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"Quanto la cosa è più perfetta, più senta il bene, e così la doglienza."
Divine ComedyFixed in the mire they say, We sullen were — Divine Comedy
"Fixed in the mire they say, We sullen were In the sweet air, which by the sun is gladdened, Bearing within ourselves the sluggish reek; Now we are sullen in this sable mire. This hymn do they keep gurgling in their throats, For with unbroken words they cannot say it."
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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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