I fell to thinking about my own life, now so debilitated, and reecting how short this life is, even in health, I began to weep about our wretched sta… - Dante Alighieri
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I fell to thinking about my own life, now so debilitated, and reecting how short this life is, even in health, I began to weep about our wretched state. Sighing deeply, I said to myself: ‘One day, inevitably, even your most gracious Beatrice must die.’ This thought threw me into such a state of bewilderment that I closed my eyes, and I began, like a person who is delirious, to be tormented by these fantasies.
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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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Durante degli Alighieri
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Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
Mora Amor en los ojos de mi amada por lo cual cuanto mira se ennoblece. Aquel a quien saluda se estremece: todo mortal le lanza su mirada. Si ella baja la faz, el todo es nada, el ánimo en quejumbre desmerece, muere soberbia, cólera perece. ¡Oh mujeres, le cumple ser loada! Toda humildad y toda dulcedumbre nace oyendo su voz pura y afable. Dichoso el hombre que la vio primero. Cuando sonríe -que su boca es lumbre- se magnifica y hácese inefable porque es algo divino y hechicero.
