Abandon every hope, all you who enter. - Dante Alighieri

I say most truly that at that moment the spirit of life, which hath its dwelling in the secretest chamber of the heart, began to tremble so violently that the least pulses of my body shook therewith; and in trembling it said these words: Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi, (“Here is a deity stronger than I ; who, coming, shall rule over me.”)

"I menšia hanba, ako bola tvoja"
učitel riekol:" väčšiu vinu zhladí,
a preto zbav sa svojho nepokoja.

No vedz, že duch môj na teba vždy hľadí,
ak Fortúna ťa v také hryzoviská
privedie zas, kde ľudia majú zvady:

bo chcieť to čuť - je ozaj túžba nízka!"

Tu se' lo mio maestro e 'l mio autore,
tu se' solo colui da cu' io tolsi
lo bello stilo che m'ha fatto onore.