"97 Love, which in gentlest hearts will soonest bloom, 98 seized my lover with passion for that sweet body 99 from which I was torn unshriven to my d… - Dante Alighieri
"97 Love, which in gentlest hearts will soonest bloom,
98 seized my lover with passion for that sweet body
99 from which I was torn unshriven to my doom.
100 Love, which permits no loved one not to love,
101 took me so strongly with delight in him
102 that we are one in Hell, as we were above.
103 Love led us to one death. In the depths of Hell
104 Caïna waits for him who took our live."
105 This was the piteous tale they stopped to tell.
(Inferno, Canto V)
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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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