God's greatest gift to man In all the bounty He was moved to make Throughout creation-the one gift the most Close to his goodness and the one He call… - Dante Alighieri

"While the everlasting pleasure, that did full On Beatrice shine, with second view From her fair countenance my gladden'd soul Contented; vanquishing me with a beam Of her soft smile, she spake: "Turn thee, and list. These eyes are not thy only Paradise.

Ничтожества одни.
В них смысла нет, - ответил мой спаситель, -

Поверь мне, что еще в земные дни
Их существами жалкими считали,
Поскольку ни героями они,

Ни явными злодеями не стали.
А с ними стая ангелов, грехов
Не ведающих, но они в они в опале

За странный выбор свой, а он таков:
Ни зло и ни добро, а нечто между.
Тогда Господь и свергнул с облаков,

Как сбрасывают грязную одежду,
И даже Ад принять их не хотел,
Ведь даже мир утративших надежду,

На них всегда с презрением глядел

Let them cease, then, to insult the Roman empire, who pretend that they are the sons of the Church; when they see that Christ, the bridegroom of the Church, sanctioned the Roman empire at the beginning and at the end of His warfare on earth. And now I think that I have made it sufficiently clear that it was by right that the Romans acquired to themselves the empire of the world.

Oh happy people, oh Ausonia, how glorious hadst thou been, if either he, that weakener of thine empire, had never been born, or if his own pious intention had never deceived him?