Now our minds are like smoke, then they shall be like fire. - Dante Alighieri

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Now our minds are like smoke, then they shall be like fire.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Through me, the way is to the suffering city; Through me, the way is to eternal pain; Through me, the way among the people lost.

Sì lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore e costumato a la sua segnoria

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.