"XI Dico che quand' ella apparía da alcuna parte, per la speranza de la mirabilo salute neun nemico mi rimanea, anzi mi giugnea una fiamma di caritad… - Dante Alighieri

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"XI
Dico che quand' ella apparía da alcuna parte, per la speranza de la mirabilo salute neun nemico mi rimanea, anzi mi giugnea una fiamma di caritade, la quale mi facea perdonare a chiunque m'avesse effeso: e chi allora m'avesse domandato di cosa alcuna, la mia risponsione sarebbe stata solamente: « Amore », con viso vestito d'umiltà. E quand'ella fosse alquanto propinqua al salutare, uno spirito d'Amore distruggiendo tutti gli altri spiriti sensitivi, pingea fori li deboletti spiriti del viso, e dicea loro: " andate a onorare la donna vostra", ed elli si rimanea nel luogo loro. E chi avesse voluto conoscere Amore, fare lo potea mirando lo temore degli occhi miei. E quando questa gentilissima salute salutava, non vhe amore fosse tal mezzo, che potesse obumbrare a mela intollerabile beatitudine, ma elli quasi per soverchio di dolcezza diventa tale, che 'l mio corpo, lo quale era tutto allora sotto 'l suo reggimento, molte volte si movea come cosa grave inanimata. Sì che appare manifestamente che ne le sue salute abitava la mia beatitudine, la quale molte volte passava e redundava la mia capacitate."

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About Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (c. 30 May 1265 – 13 September 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Sandro Botticelli (Public domain / CC0)

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Alternative Names: Dante Durante degli Alighieri Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri

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Often it is brought home to my mind
the dark quality that Love gives me,
and pity moves me, so that frequently
I say: ‘Alas! is anyone so afflicted?’:
since Amor assails me suddenly,
so that life almost abandons me:
only a single spirit stays with me,
and that remains because it speaks of you.
I renew my strength, because I wish for help,
and pale like this, all my courage drained,
come to you, believing it will save me:
and if I lift my eyes to gaze at you
my heart begins to tremble so,
that from my pulse the soul departs.

Because your human longings point to where portions grow smaller in shared fellowship, meanness of mind must make the bellows sigh. 52 If love, though, seeking for the utmost sphere, should ever wrench your longings to the skies, such fears would have no place within your breast. 55 For, there, the more that we can speak of “ours”, the more each one possesses of the good and, in that cloister, caritas burns brighter.

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