Lines by Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Italian poet · 1265–1321
Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy in exile from Florence. His choice to write it in Tuscan rather than Latin helped shape the Italian language.
Midway along the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, / ché la diritta via era smarrita.
Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto I, lines 1–3
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The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Canto XXXIII, line 145
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