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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Dante
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Durante degli Alighieri
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Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
Si deseáramos estar más elevadas, nuestro anhelo estaría en desacuerdo con la voluntad de Aquel que nos reúne aquí, desacuerdo que no admiten las esferas celestes, como verás si consideras bien que aquí es condición necesaria estar unidas a Dios por medio de la caridad y que la naturaleza de la caridad es ella misma, es decir, conformarse a la voluntad del ser amado. También es necesario a nuestra existencia bienaventurada uniformar la propia voluntad a la de Dios, de modo que nuestras mismas voluntades se refundan en una. Así es que el estar como estamos distribuidas de grado en grado por este reino configura la naturaleza del mismo, porque place al Rey cuya voluntad es la nuestra. En su voluntad está nuestra paz; ella es el mar a donde va a parar todo lo que ha creado o lo que hace la Naturaleza.
Degenerates! Your fate is sealed! Cry woe! Don't hope you'll ever see the skies again! I'm here to lead you to the farther shore, into eternal shadow, heat and chill. And you there! You! Yes, you, the living soul! Ger right away from this gang! These are dead.
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Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. How shall I say what wood that was! I never saw so drear, so rank, so arduous a wilderness! Its very memory gives a shape to fear. Death could scarce be more bitter than that place! But since it came to good, I will recount all that I found revealed there by God’s grace. How I came to it I cannot rightly say, so drugged and loose with sleep had I become when I first wandered there from the True Way. But at the far end of that valley of evil whose maze had sapped my very heart with fear! I found myself before a little hill (15) and lifted up my eyes. Its shoulders glowed already with the sweet rays of that planet whose virtue leads men straight on every road, and the shining strengthened me against the fright whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart through all the terrors of that piteous night.
