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2026-05-01 12:52:57 CEST

And my sweet Father, to encourage me,
Discoursing still of Beatrice went on,
Saying: “Her eyes I seem to see already!”
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 27

2026-04-30 17:12:30 CEST

Below is greedy to learn tidings of it.
Within it is the lofty mind, where knowledge
So deep was put, that, if the true be true,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 10

2026-04-29 19:57:04 CEST

Thou bearest away the eternal part of him,
For one poor little tear, that takes him from me;
But with the rest I’ll deal in other fashion!’
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 5

2026-04-28 16:08:19 CEST

And nectar every rivulet with thirst.
Honey and locusts were the aliments
That fed the Baptist in the wilderness;
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 22

2026-04-27 21:20:33 CEST

Even thus did Geryon place us on the bottom,
Close to the bases of the rough-hewn rock,
And being disencumbered of our persons,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 17

2026-04-26 23:04:06 CEST

The Good which all the realm thou art ascending
Turns and contents, maketh its providence
To be a power within these bodies vast;
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 8

2026-04-26 06:06:24 CEST

And Caesar, that he might subdue Ilerda,
Thrust at Marseilles, and then ran into Spain.”
“Quick! quick! so that the time may not be lost
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 18

2026-04-24 04:35:08 CEST

Justice so wills, and pity doth retain me.”
He who on no new thing has ever looked
Was the creator of this visible language,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 10

2026-04-22 01:14:37 CEST

Man may lay violent hands upon himself
And his own goods; and therefore in the second
Round must perforce without avail repent
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 11

2026-04-20 19:25:29 CEST

And he to me: “Ere unto thee the shore
Reveal itself, thou shalt be satisfied;
Such a desire ’tis meet thou shouldst enjoy.”
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 8

2026-04-20 00:56:09 CEST

For they that through their eyes pour drop by drop
The malady which all the world pervades,
On the other side too near the verge approach.
Accursed mayst thou be, thou old she-wolf,
That more than all the other beasts hast prey,
Because of hunger infinitely hollow!
O heaven, in whose gyrations some appear
To think conditions here below are changed,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 20

2026-04-18 21:59:26 CEST

That came at first between it and the Griffin,
Turned themselves to the car, as to their peace.
And one of them, as if by Heaven commissioned,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 30

2026-04-17 04:55:02 CEST

One waiting thus, even as it comes to pass
One frog remains, and down another dives;
And Graffiacan, who most confronted him,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 22

2026-04-16 10:48:09 CEST

Against the Sienese, make sharp thine eye
Tow’rds me, so that my face well answer thee,
And thou shalt see I am Capocchio’s shade,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 29

2026-04-15 08:37:55 CEST

O Muses, O high genius, now assist me!
O memory, that didst write down what I saw,
Here thy nobility shall be manifest!
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 2

2026-04-14 02:58:08 CEST

Howe’er it weeps thereat and is indignant.
The just are two, and are not understood there;
Envy and Arrogance and Avarice
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 6

2026-04-13 10:25:10 CEST

But said: “Be still and let the years roll round;”
So I can only say, that lamentation
Legitimate shall follow on your wrongs.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 9

2026-04-12 11:05:01 CEST

I was bent downward, but my living eyes
Could not attain the bottom, for the dark;
Wherefore I: “Master, see that thou arrive
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 24

2026-04-11 10:46:21 CEST

That after it the memory cannot go.
Truly whatever of the holy realm
I had the power to treasure in my mind
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 1

2026-04-10 05:27:44 CEST

Which maketh servant strong before good master.
I seated me upon those monstrous shoulders;
I wished to say, and yet the voice came not
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 17

2026-04-09 05:59:43 CEST

‘Eli’ he then was called, and that is proper,
Because the use of men is like a leaf
On bough, which goeth and another cometh.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 26

2026-04-08 03:53:49 CEST

And thus the shade that questioned was of this
Himself acquitted: “I know not; but truly
’Tis fit the name of such a valley perish;
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 14

2026-04-06 23:22:36 CEST

We were attentive still unto the trunk,
Thinking that more it yet might wish to tell us,
When by a tumult we were overtaken,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 13

2026-04-05 22:57:52 CEST

Those who, in reasoning, to the bottom went,
Were of this innate liberty aware,
Therefore bequeathed they Ethics to the world.
Supposing, then, that from necessity
Springs every love that is within you kindled,
Within yourselves the power is to restrain it.
The noble virtue Beatrice understands
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 18

2026-04-04 05:34:54 CEST

Beneath, to give a passage to the scourged,
The Guide said: “Wait, and see that on thee strike
The vision of those others evil-born,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 18

2026-03-31 13:58:06 CEST

What thou hast seen was that thou mayst not fail
To ope thy heart unto the waters of peace,
Which from the eternal fountain are diffused.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 15

2026-03-30 20:57:28 CEST

Will to the living of the land conform.
Above us there are mirrors, Thrones you call them,
From which shines out on us God Judicant,
So that this utterance seems good to us.”
Here it was silent, and it had the semblance
Of being turned elsewhither, by the wheel
On which it entered as it was before.
The other joy, already known to me,
Became a thing transplendent in my sight,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 9

2026-03-30 02:39:58 CEST

With their false pleasure turned aside my steps,
Soon as your countenance concealed itself.”
And she: “Shouldst thou be silent, or deny
What thou confessest, not less manifest
Would be thy fault, by such a Judge ’tis known.
But when from one’s own cheeks comes bursting forth
The accusal of the sin, in our tribunal
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 31

2026-03-29 04:46:56 CEST

His name was Guidoguerra, and in life
Much did he with his wisdom and his sword.
The other, who close by me treads the sand,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 16

2026-03-27 04:46:58 CET

Unto God’s service I became so steadfast,
That feeding only on the juice of olives
Lightly I passed away the heats and frosts,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 21

2026-03-26 01:18:28 CET

And when the bow of burning sympathy
Was so far slackened, that its speech descended
Towards the mark of our intelligence,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 15

2026-03-25 03:15:15 CET

They were not visible, spirits uttering
Unto Love’s table courteous invitations,
The first voice that passed onward in its flight,
“Vinum non habent,” said in accents loud,
And went reiterating it behind us.
And ere it wholly grew inaudible
Because of distance, passed another, crying,
“I am Orestes!” and it also stayed not.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 13

2026-03-23 22:48:02 CET

This tristful brooklet, when it has descended
Down to the foot of the malign gray shores.
And I, who stood intent upon beholding,
Saw people mud-besprent in that lagoon,
All of them naked and with angry look.
They smote each other not alone with hands,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 7

2026-03-23 01:06:34 CET

The rock to give a way to him who mounts,
Went on to where the circling doth begin.
On the fifth circle when I had come forth,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 19

2026-03-22 00:50:22 CET

I know not who thou art, nor by what mode
Thou hast come down here; but a Florentine
Thou seemest to me truly, when I hear thee.
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 33

2026-03-21 03:51:41 CET

By means of power, which his own nature gave;
Thereafter, when the day was spent, the valley
From Pratomagno to the great yoke covered
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 5

2026-03-20 05:04:26 CET

From the waist upwards wholly shalt thou see him.”
I had already fixed mine eyes on his,
And he uprose erect with breast and front
E’en as if Hell he had in great despite.
And with courageous hands and prompt my Leader
Thrust me between the sepulchres towards him,
Exclaiming, “Let thy words explicit be.”
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 10

2026-03-19 11:39:37 CET

Who lived withouten infamy or praise.
Commingled are they with that caitiff choir
Of Angels, who have not rebellious been,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 3

2026-03-18 09:37:04 CET

About our way, we stopped upon a plain
More desolate than roads across the deserts.
From where its margin borders on the void,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 10

2026-03-17 04:20:52 CET

Only my Leader and myself behind him,
After that company departed from us.
One climbs Sanleo and descends in Noli,
And mounts the summit of Bismantova,
With feet alone; but here one needs must fly;
With the swift pinions and the plumes I say
Of great desire, conducted after him
Who gave me hope, and made a light for me.
We mounted upward through the rifted rock,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 4

2026-03-15 08:12:32 CET

Beatrice did as Daniel had done
Relieving Nebuchadnezzar from the wrath
Which rendered him unjustly merciless,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 4

2026-03-13 14:35:32 CET

Being by such a noble lover kissed,
This one, who ne’er from me shall be divided,
Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating.
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 5

2026-03-12 20:03:52 CET

And said I: ‘Father, since thou washest me
Of that sin into which I now must fall,
The promise long with the fulfilment short
Will make thee triumph in thy lofty seat.’
Francis came afterward, when I was dead,
For me; but one of the black Cherubim
Said to him: ‘Take him not; do me no wrong;
He must come down among my servitors,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 27

2026-03-11 16:50:56 CET

Therefore look well around, and thou shalt see
Things that will credence give unto my speech.”
I heard on all sides lamentations uttered,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 13

2026-03-10 11:55:45 CET

Pressed out the tears so that they bathed their cheeks.
To them I turned me, and, “O people, certain,”
Began I, “of beholding the high light,
Which your desire has solely in its care,
So may grace speedily dissolve the scum
Upon your consciences, that limpidly
Through them descend the river of the mind,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 13

2026-03-09 06:32:37 CET

As the sun doth the rose, when it becomes
As far unfolded as it hath the power.
Therefore I pray, and thou assure me, father,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 22

2026-03-07 10:22:32 CET

But that thou wholly satisfied mayst bear
Thy wishes hence which in this sphere are born,
Still farther to proceed behoveth me.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 9

2026-03-05 20:20:34 CET

Of something else may truly be called just.
I saw the daughter of Latona shining
Without that shadow, which to me was cause
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 22

2026-03-03 19:59:44 CET

Ah, savage company! but in the church
With saints, and in the tavern with the gluttons!
Ever upon the pitch was my intent,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 22

2026-03-02 22:17:05 CET

Who affirms without distinction, or denies,
As well in one as in the other case;
Because it happens that full often bends
Current opinion in the false direction,
And then the feelings bind the intellect.
Far more than uselessly he leaves the shore,
(Since he returneth not the same he went,)
Who fishes for the truth, and has no skill;
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 13

2026-03-02 02:17:50 CET

But mark the circles to the most remote,
Until thou shalt behold enthroned the Queen
To whom this realm is subject and devoted.”
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 31

2026-02-28 20:31:19 CET

The sea I sail has never yet been passed;
Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo,
And Muses nine point out to me the Bears.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 2

2026-02-28 01:31:03 CET

O Simon Magus, O forlorn disciples,
Ye who the things of God, which ought to be
The brides of holiness, rapaciously
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 19

2026-02-26 19:47:01 CET

In thee magnificence; in thee unites
Whate’er of goodness is in any creature.
Now doth this man, who from the lowest depth
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 33

2026-02-25 22:37:59 CET

But unto the last Bolgia of the ten,
For alchemy, which in the world I practised,
Minos, who cannot err, has me condemned.”
And to the Poet said I: “Now was ever
So vain a people as the Sienese?
Not for a certainty the French by far.”
Whereat the other leper, who had heard me,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 29

2026-02-25 02:32:41 CET

To keep itself within the will divine,
Whereby our very wishes are made one;
So that, as we are station above station
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 3

2026-02-24 04:41:28 CET

So that I cannot from the thought withdraw me.”
“Didst thou behold,” he said, “that old enchantress,
Who sole above us henceforth is lamented?
Didst thou behold how man is freed from her?
Suffice it thee, and smite earth with thy heels,
Thine eyes lift upward to the lure, that whirls
The Eternal King with revolutions vast.”
Even as the hawk, that first his feet surveys,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 19

2026-02-23 01:51:37 CET

She with her prayers devout and with her sighs
Has drawn me from the coast where one where one awaits,
And from the other circles set me free.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 23

2026-02-22 07:23:25 CET

To represent transhumanise in words
Impossible were; the example, then, suffice
Him for whom Grace the experience reserves.
If I was merely what of me thou newly
Createdst, Love who governest the heaven,
Thou knowest, who didst lift me with thy light!
When now the wheel, which thou dost make eternal
Desiring thee, made me attentive to it
By harmony thou dost modulate and measure,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 1

2026-02-21 07:37:23 CET

A softly-breathing air, that no mutation
Had in itself, upon the forehead smote me
No heavier blow than of a gentle wind,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 28

2026-02-20 10:19:18 CET

As much as was permitted to our power,
When I perceived, like something that is falling,
The mountain tremble, whence a chill seized on me,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 20

2026-02-19 12:27:33 CET

Because I fires beheld, and heard laments,
Whereat I, trembling, all the closer cling.
I saw then, for before I had not seen it,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 17

2026-02-18 14:44:44 CET

Recalls him, so that death may be delayed.
And he cried out: “Dost thou stand there already,
Dost thou stand there already, Boniface?
By many years the record lied to me.
Art thou so early satiate with that wealth,
For which thou didst not fear to take by fraud
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 19

2026-02-17 20:34:24 CET

Save showing him the people of perdition.
For this I visited the gates of death,
And unto him, who so far up has led him,
My intercessions were with weeping borne.
God’s lofty fiat would be violated,
If Lethe should be passed, and if such viands
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 30

2026-02-15 18:34:04 CET

Where just before I said, ‘where well one fattens,’
And where I said, ‘there never rose a second;’
And here ’tis needful we distinguish well.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 11

2026-02-14 21:27:58 CET

Into which gazing my desire has rest;
But who bethinks him that the living seals
Of every beauty grow in power ascending,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 14

2026-02-14 00:56:02 CET

Display to me the lightning of a smile?”
Now am I caught on this side and on that;
One keeps me silent, one to speak conjures me,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 21

2026-02-12 12:22:15 CET

Which was acquired while weeping in the exile
Of Babylon, wherein the gold was left.
There triumpheth, beneath the exalted Son
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 23

2026-02-11 11:06:18 CET

Thou didst instil me, then, with his instilling
In the Epistle, so that I am full,
And upon others rain again your rain.”
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 25

2026-02-10 17:22:31 CET

But Orient, if he properly would speak.
He was not yet far distant from his rising
Before he had begun to make the earth
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 11

2026-02-09 19:11:23 CET

Which being untasted ne’er is comprehended,
Grateful ’twill be to me, if thou content me
Both with thy name and with your destiny.”
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 3

2026-02-08 19:23:54 CET

Piteously weeping and bemoaning them;
And I by peradventure heard “Sweet Mary!”
Uttered in front of us amid the weeping
Even as a woman does who is in child-birth;
And in continuance: “How poor thou wast
Is manifested by that hostelry
Where thou didst lay thy sacred burden down.”
Thereafterward I heard: “O good Fabricius,
Virtue with poverty didst thou prefer
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 20

2026-02-07 18:22:07 CET

And then the feelings bind the intellect.
Far more than uselessly he leaves the shore,
(Since he returneth not the same he went,)
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 13

2026-02-05 15:59:00 CET

And two behold! upon our left-hand side,
Naked and scratched, fleeing so furiously,
That of the forest, every fan they broke.
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 13

2026-02-04 20:15:16 CET

Bear it in mind, if she should speak of it.”
The moon, belated almost unto midnight,
Now made the stars appear to us more rare,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 18

2026-01-31 16:42:05 CET

If Providence divine were not triumphant.
Now that which was behind thee is before thee;
But that thou know that I with thee am pleased,
With a corollary will I mantle thee.
Evermore nature, if it fortune find
Discordant to it, like each other seed
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 8

2026-01-30 21:20:52 CET

And smacks still of the mountain and the granite,
Will make itself, for thy good deeds, thy foe;
And it is right; for among crabbed sorbs
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 15

2026-01-30 00:21:17 CET

With voice angelical, in her own language:
‘O spirit courteous of Mantua,
Of whom the fame still in the world endures,
And shall endure, long-lasting as the world;
A friend of mine, and not the friend of fortune,
Upon the desert slope is so impeded
Upon his way, that he has turned through terror,
And may, I fear, already be so lost,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 2

2026-01-28 23:45:51 CET

And I: “If every spirit who awaits
The verge of life before that he repent,
Remains below there and ascends not hither,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 11

2026-01-28 01:53:29 CET

My pleasure not to hear, and to be mute.
And as a pilgrim who delighteth him
In gazing round the temple of his vow,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 31

2026-01-26 21:30:37 CET

I had while living much of what I wished,
And now, alas! a drop of water crave.
The rivulets, that from the verdant hills
Of Cassentin descend down into Arno,
Making their channels to be cold and moist,
Ever before me stand, and not in vain;
For far more doth their image dry me up
Than the disease which strips my face of flesh.
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 30

2026-01-25 22:57:36 CET

But Orient, if he properly would speak.
He was not yet far distant from his rising
Before he had begun to make the earth
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 11

2026-01-23 14:37:38 CET

That going up shall be to thee as easy
As going down the current in a boat,
Then at this pathway’s ending thou wilt be;
There to repose thy panting breath expect;
No more I answer; and this I know for true.”
And as he finished uttering these words,
A voice close by us sounded: “Peradventure
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 4