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" "Eis Tirésias, o que mudara o aspeito,
Femíneas formas e feições tomara,
42 Sendo-lhe o que era varonil desfeito.
“Ao sexo seu tornou, quando encontrara,
Inda uma vez, travadas serpes duas
45 E outra vez com bordão as separara.
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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[Sonetto XXIII]
Lasso! per forza di molti sospiri,
che nascon de’ penser che son nel core,
li occhi son vinti, e non hanno valore
di riguardar persona che li miri.
E fatti son che paion due disiri
di lagrimare e di mostrar dolore,
e spesse volte piangon sì, ch’Amore
li ’ncerchia di corona di martìri.
Questi penseri, e li sospir ch’eo gitto,
diventan ne lo cor sì angosciosi,
ch’Amor vi tramortisce, sì lien dole;
però ch’elli hanno in lor li dolorosi
quel dolce nome di madonna scritto,
e de la morte sua molte parole.
Could I have everything for which I long, You would not still endure this banishment way from human nature,” I replied. “Your image - dear, fatherly, benevolent - Being fixed inside my memory, has imbued My heart: when in the fair world, hour by hour You taught me, patiently, it was you who showed The way man makes himself eternal; therefore, The gratitude I feel toward you makes fit That while I live, I should declare it here. And what you tell me of my future, I write