“Pride, Envy, and Avarice are
the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.”
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto VI, lines 74–75 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Pride, Envy, and Avarice are
the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.”
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto VI, lines 74–75 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Abandon all hope, you who enter here.”
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto III, line 9.
Often quoted with the translated form "Abandon hope all ye who enter here". The word "all" modifies hope, not those who enter: "ogni speranza" means "all hope".
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso
Canto XIX, lines 79–81 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto III, lines 79–84 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto III, lines 40–42 (tr. Mark Musa).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Vita Nuova
ne le braccia avea
madonna involta in un drappo dormendo.
Poi la svegliava, e d'esto core ardendo
lei paventosa umilmente pascea:
appresso gir lo ne vedea piangendo.
Origine: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter I, First Sonnet (tr. Mark Musa)
Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso
Canto XX, lines 136–138 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
“The use of men is like a leaf
On bough, which goeth and another cometh.”
Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso
Canto XXVI, lines 137–138 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso
Canto V, lines 19–24 (tr. Singleton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
“Here one must leave behind all hesitation;
here every cowardice must meet its death.”
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto III, lines 14–15 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Morality is the beauty of Philosophy.”
Trattato Terzo, Ch. 15.
Il Convivio (1304–1307)
“A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.”
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto XXIV, lines 77–78 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Against a better will the will fights ill,…”
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto XX, line 1 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
“From that point
Dependent is the heaven and nature all.”
Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso
Canto XXVIII, lines 41–42 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
“Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubs
Which of itself alone this land produces.”
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto XXVII, lines 134–135 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
“And you, the living soul, you over there
get away from all these people who are dead.”
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto III, lines 88–89 (tr. Mark Musa).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“The night that hides things from us.”
Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso
Canto XXIII, line 3 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto III, lines 1–3 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto XXIV, lines 47–51.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto I, lines 22–24 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio