Dante Alighieri: Frasi in inglese

Dante Alighieri era poeta italiano autore della Divina Commedia. Frasi in inglese.
Dante Alighieri: 405 citazioni906 Mi piace

“If I thought my answer were to one
who would ever return to the world,
this flame should stay without another movement; but since none
ever returned alive from this depth, if what I hear is true,
I answer thee without fear of infamy.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Inferno

Canto XXVII, lines 61–66 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“Not only thy benignity gives succour
To him who asketh it, but oftentimes
Forerunneth of its own accord the asking.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso

Canto XXXIII, lines 16–18 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

“Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio

Canto XXII, lines 10–12.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“As the thing more perfect is,
The more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Inferno

Canto VI, lines 107–108 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio

Canto XII, lines 95–96 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Inferno

Canto XXVI, lines 118–120.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“That your art follows her so far as it can, as the disciple does the master, so that your art is as it were grandchild of God.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Inferno

Canto XI, lines 103–105 (tr. Charles Eliot Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“You dull your own perceptions
with false imaginings and do not grasp
what would be clear but for your preconceptions.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso

Canto I, lines 88–90 (tr. Ciardi).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

“He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who gives his life for it.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio

Canto I, lines 71–72 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“For top of judgment doth not vail itself,
Because the fire of love fulfils at once
What he must satisfy who here installs him.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio

Canto VI, lines 37–39 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“It hither, thither, downward, upward, drives them.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Inferno

Canto V, line 43 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio

Canto XI, lines 100–102 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“If thou art, Reader, slow now to believe
What I shall say, it will no marvel be,
For I who saw it hardly can admit it.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Inferno

Canto XXV, lines 46–48 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio

Canto XXX, lines 118–120 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“Do not rest in so profound a doubt except she tell it thee, who shall be a light between truth and intellect. I know not if thou understand: I speak of Beatrice.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio

Canto VI, lines 43–46 (tr. Carlyle-Wicksteed).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“In that book which is
My memory…
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words…
Here begins a new life.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Vita Nuova

Origine: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter I, opening lines (as reported in The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell)

“To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio

Canto I, lines 1–3 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another man's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso

Canto XVII, lines 58–60 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

“I came into a place void of all light,
which bellows like the sea in tempest,
when it is combated by warring winds.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Inferno

Canto V, lines 28–30 (tr. Charles S. Singleton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.”

Help us translate this quote

Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso

Canto XX, lines 73–77 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso