Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell! - Dante Alighieri

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Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!

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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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a sense of the right-choice-alwaysbeing-made”; and this applies to everything from the smallest word to the harmonious interrelation of the principal divisions.
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