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Durante degli Alighieri (Italian: [duˈrante deʎʎ aliˈɡjɛːri]), simply called Dante (Italian: [ˈdante], UK /ˈdænti/, US /ˈdɑːnteɪ/; c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. It has been referred to as greatest poem of the Middle Ages. In the late Middle Ages, the overwhelming majority of poetry was written in Latin, and therefore accessible only to affluent and educated audiences. In De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular), however, Dante defended use of the vernacular in literature. He himself would even write in the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and the aforementioned Divine Comedy; this choice, although highly unorthodox, set a hugely important precedent that later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. As a result, Dante played an instrumental role in establishing the national language of Italy. Dante's significance also extends past his home country; his depictions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven have provided inspiration for a large body of Western art, and are cited as an influence on the works of John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer and Alfred Tennyson, among many others. In addition, the first use of the interlocking three-line rhyme scheme, or the terza rima, is attributed to hi

All Love (3)Smile (2)When Words Fail (2)Sexual/Love Transcendence (2)Location Distortion (1)Built From Heaven (1)Sad (1)Perfect Sentences (1)Color (1)Philosophy (1)Conceptual Writing (1)I No Longer Knew Where I Was (1)Transubstantiation (1)Dissolve (1)Nature (1)

From “Paradiso”

Within the profound and shining subsistence of the lofty Light appeared to me three circles of three colors and one magnitude, and one seemed reflected by the other, as rainbow by rainbow, and the third seemed fire breathed forth equally from the one and the other.

Three Is The Number Color Visions Word Failure

I saw faces all given to love, adorned by the Light of Another, and by their own smile.

Theological Perfection Love Power of Social Connection Connected Smile

From “Purgatorio ”

Already desiring to explore inside and out the divine forest, so dense and alive, which tempered the new day before my eyes, without delay I left the bank, proceeding slowly through the country whose ground exuded fragrance everywhere.

Forests Nature

From “The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)”

Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

first lines of books

From “La Vita Nuova: The New Life”

Upon seeing her, it was like I was hit by a heavy object and I trembled violently.

Femme Fatale

The moment I saw her, I say in all truth that the vital spirit, which dwells in the inmost depth of the heart, began to tremble so violently that I felt the vibration alarmingly in my pulses.

Descriptions of Muses

From “A New Life ”

I often went in search of her, and I saw that in all her ways she was so praiseworthy and noble that indeed the words of the poet Homer might have been said of her, she did not seem the daughter of a mortal man, but of a god.

Muses Love Built From Heaven

From “Dante’s Vita Nuova, New Edition”

I see your eyes, I see how they have wept, and how you come retreating all undone; my heart is touched and shaken at the sight.

Tears Crying

For, if any one should dress his poem in images and rhetorical coloring and then, being asked to strip his poem of such dress in order to reveal its true meaning, would not be able to do so— this would be a veritable cause for shame.

Conceptual Writing Concepts as the True Flesh Beyond Ornamentation

The image of her when she starts to smile dissolves within the mind and melts away, a miracle too rich and strange to hold.

Smile Transcendental Too Beautiful To Posses Lost When Found Sexual/Love Transcendence

God has graced her with an even greater gift: whoever speaks with her shall speak with Him.

Angelic Talk To A Lover (And Talk To God)

How can a mortal body achieve such beauty and such purity?

Purity God & Man Otherworldly Grains

In her salutation dwelt my bliss, a bliss which often exceeded my capacity to contain it.

Love Feelings of Love Overwhelming Joy Sexual/Love Transcendence

This most gracious lady of whom I have spoken in the preceding poems came into such widespread favor that, when she walked down the street, people ran to see her. When she passed by someone, such modesty filled his heart that he did not dare to raise his eyes or to return her greeting.

Too Beautiful Too Posses

While my imagination was wandering like this, I came to the point that I no longer knew where I was.

I No Longer Knew Where I Was Imagination Location Distortion Lost In Your Mind

From “The Divine Comedy, Vol. II”

We were received into the elements of the eternal pearl as water takes light to itself, with no change in its substance.

Dissolve Absorb Transubstantiation Metaphors 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature

From “Paradiso: Third Book of the Divine Comedy”

Oh, how scant is speech, and how feeble to my conception! And this, to say what I saw, is such that it is not enough to can it little.

When Words Fail The Impossibility of Communication

From “The Divine Comedy”

The path to paradise begins in hell.

Hell Paradise The Obstacle Is The Way

How much my words miss my conception, which is itself so far from what I saw that to call it feeble would be rank deception!

When Words Fail

From “De Vulgari Eloquentia”

To me, the whole world is a homeland, like the sea to fish.

Home World Similes

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