Alma criada para amar ardente,
A tudo corre, que lhe dá contento,
21 Se despertada do prazer se sente.
“Do que é real o vosso entendimento
Colhe imag… - Dante Alighieri
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Alma criada para amar ardente, A tudo corre, que lhe dá contento, 21 Se despertada do prazer se sente. “Do que é real o vosso entendimento Colhe imagens que em modo tal desprega, 24 Que alma pra elas sente atraimento. “Se alma, enlevada, ao seu pendor se entrega, Esse efeito é amor, própria natura, 27 Em que o prazer novo liame emprega. “E, como o fogo se ala para a altura Por sua forma, que a elevar-se tende 30 Ao foco, onde o elemento seu mais dura, Assim pelo desejo a alma se acende, Ação espiritual que não se aquieta, 33 Se não consegue a posse, que pretende.
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
If who I am thou carest so much to know, That thou on that account hast crossed the bank, Know that I vested was with the great mantle; And truly was I son of the She-bear, So eager to advance the cubs, that wealth Above, and here myself, I pocketed. Beneath my head the others are dragged down Who have preceded me in simony, Flattened along the fissure of the rock. Below there I shall likewise fall, whenever That one shall come who I believed thou wast, What time the sudden question I proposed. But longer I my feet already toast, And here have been in this way upside down, Than he will planted stay with reddened feet; For after him shall come of fouler deed From tow'rds the west a Pastor without law, Such as befits to cover him and me.
