“By its seed each herb is recognized.”
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto XVI, line 114 (tr. Longfellow).
Compare: "Ye shall know them by their fruits." Matthew 7:16 KJV.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
“By its seed each herb is recognized.”
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto XVI, line 114 (tr. Longfellow).
Compare: "Ye shall know them by their fruits." Matthew 7:16 KJV.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto XXXIII, lines 94–96 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto XVII, lines 127–129 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto III, lines 85–87 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto XXVIII
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto XI, lines 13–15 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto VII, lines 64–66 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto XXX, lines 46–48.
Compare: Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae ("I feel once more the scars of the old flame", tr. C. Day Lewis), Virgil, Aeneid, Book IV, line 23.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is little fault!”
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto III, lines 8–9 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
“Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar.”
Dante Alighieri libro Vita Nuova
Sì lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore
e costumato a la sua segnoria
Origine: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter XXIV
“Virtue with poverty didst thou prefer
To the possession of great wealth with vice.”
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto XX, lines 26–27 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto III, lines 34–36 (tr. John D. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto I, lines 1–3 (tr. Mandelbaum).
Longfellow's translation:
: Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straight-forward pathway had been lost.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso
Canto XXXIII, lines 85–87 (tr. Ciardi).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto XIII, lines 58–60 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“To be rude to him was courtesy.”
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto XXXIII, line 150 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“How long in woman lasts the fire of love,
If eye or touch do not relight it often.”
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto VIII, lines 77–78 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri libro Inferno
Canto XI, lines 91–93 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Dante Alighieri libro Paradiso
Canto III, lines 85–87 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
“Time moves and yet we do not notice it.”
Dante Alighieri libro Purgatorio
Canto IV, line 9 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio