All hope abandon, ye who enter here. - Dante Alighieri

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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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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Additional quotes by Dante Alighieri

Who is more arrogant
within his soul, who is more impious
than one who dares to sorrow at God’s judgment?

[Sonetto XVI]

Vede perfettamente onne salute
chi la mia donna tra le donne vede;
quelle che vanno con lei son tenute
di bella grazia a Dio render merzede.

E sua bieltate è di tanta vertute,
che nulla invidia a l’altre ne procede,
anzi la face andar seco vestute
di gentilezza, d’amore e di fede.

La vista sua fa onne cosa umile;
e non fa sola sé parer piacente,
ma ciascuna per lei riceve onore.

Ed è ne li atti suoi tanto gentile,
che nessun la si può recare a mente,
che non sospiri in dolcezza d’amore.

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At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

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