like a mother wakened by a midnight noise to find a wall of… - Dante Alighieri

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like a mother wakened by a midnight noise to find a wall of flame at her bedside (who takes her child and runs, and more concerned for him than for herself, does not pause even to throw a wrap about her)

Dante Alighieri

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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.

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

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As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

Non fa scienza,
sanza lo ritenere, avere inteso

Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi.

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