How frozen I became and powerless then, Ask it not, reader, for I write it not, Because all language would be insufficient. I did not die, and I aliv… - Dante Alighieri

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How frozen I became and powerless then, Ask it not, reader, for I write it not, Because all language would be insufficient. I did not die, and I alive remained not. Think for thyself now, hast though ought of wit, What I became, being of both deprived.

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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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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.”)

"[Sonetto IX]
Spesse fiate vegnomi a la mente
le oscure qualità ch’Amor mi dona,
e vienmene pietà, sì che sovente
io dico: "Lasso!, avviene elli a persona?";

Ch’Amor m’assale subitamente,
sì che la vita quasi m’abbandona:
campami un spirto vivo solamente,
e que’ riman perché di voi ragiona.

Poscia mi sforzo, ché mi voglio aitare;
e così smorto, d’onne valor vòto,
vegno a vedervi, credendo guerire:

e se io levo li occhi per guardare,
nel cor mi si comincia uno tremoto,
che fa da’ polsi l’anima partire."

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