Words from Italy
Italy
3 lines from Italy, each with the edition you can check it in.
Dante Alighieri · Italian poet
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
Planet-X translation, 2026 · Source (opens the digitised edition in a new tab)
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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Marcus Aurelius · Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher
The universe is change; life is what we judge it to be.
ὁ κόσμος ἀλλοίωσις, ὁ βίος ὑπόληψις.
Meditations, 4.3
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