My soul, why dost thou not depart from me?
The torments which perforce will burden thee
Here in the world which hateful to thee grows
My mind with fe… - Dante Alighieri
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My soul, why dost thou not depart from me? The torments which perforce will burden thee Here in the world which hateful to thee grows My mind with fearful apprehension To Death then I appeal As to a sweet, benecent repose: ‘Come now to me,’ with so much love I cry That I am envious of all who die.
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
they blasphemed God, their parents, their time on earth, the race of Adam, and the day and the hour and the place and the seed and the womb that gave them birth.
You were not made to live like brute beasts, but to pursue virtue and knowledge
