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
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.
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Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
faith is the substance of things hoped for and argument of those that do not appear,
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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