Oh vana gloria de l'umane posse! com' poco verde insula cima dura, ... [Oh quanto é efêmera a glória humana! quão pouco tempo dura o verde na árvore… - Dante Alighieri

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Oh vana gloria de l'umane posse!
com' poco verde insula cima dura, ...

[Oh quanto é efêmera a glória humana!
quão pouco tempo dura o verde na árvore, ... ] — Dante Alighieri, A Divina Comédia, Canto XI, 91-92

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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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She appeared dressed in the most patrician of colors, a subdued and decorous crimson, her robe bound round and adorned in a style suitable to her years. At that very moment, and I speak the truth, the vital spirit, the one that dwells in the most secret chamber of the heart, began to tremble so violently that even the most minute veins of my body were strangely affected; and trembling, it spoke these words: “Here is a god stronger than I who comes to rule over me.

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A ciascun’alma presa e gentil core
Nel cui cospetto ven lo dir presente,
In ciò che mi rescrivan suo parvente,
Salute in lor segnor, cioè Amore.

Già eran quasi che atterzate l’ore
Del tempo che onne stella n’è lucente,
Quando m’apparve Amor subitamente,
Cui essenza membrar mi dà orrore.

Allegro mi sembrava Amor tenendo
Meo core in mano, e ne le braccia avea
Madonna involta in un drappo dormendo.

Poi la svegliava, e d’esto core ardendo
Lei paventosa umilmente pascea:
Appresso gir lo ne vedea piangendo.

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