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2026-04-05 20:57:52 UTC

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 23:29:11 UTC

Thou from a slave hast brought me unto freedom,
By all those ways, by all the expedients,
Whereby thou hadst the power of doing it.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 31

2026-04-04 03:34:54 UTC

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

2026-04-03 08:01:22 UTC

Kindled in me a longing for their cause,
Never before with such acuteness felt;
Whence she, who saw me as I saw myself,
To quiet in me my perturbed mind,
Opened her mouth, ere I did mine to ask,
And she began: “Thou makest thyself so dull
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 1

2026-04-02 13:13:27 UTC

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.
The Providence, which governeth the world
With counsel, wherein all created vision
Is vanquished ere it reach unto the bottom,
(So that towards her own Beloved might go
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 11

2026-04-01 11:03:00 UTC

That circumvallate that disconsolate city;
The walls appeared to me to be of iron.
Not without making first a circuit wide,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 8

2026-03-31 11:58:06 UTC

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 18:57:28 UTC

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 00:39:58 UTC

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 02:46:56 UTC

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

2026-03-28 07:52:34 UTC

What merit or what grace to me reveals thee?
If I to hear thy words be worthy, tell me
If thou dost come from Hell, and from what cloister.”
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 7

2026-03-27 03:46:58 UTC

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 00:18:28 UTC

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 02:15:15 UTC

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 21:48:02 UTC

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 00:06:34 UTC

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

2026-03-21 23:50:22 UTC

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 02:51:41 UTC

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 04:04:26 UTC

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 10:39:37 UTC

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 08:37:04 UTC

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 03:20:52 UTC

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

2026-03-16 07:23:00 UTC

Neither so many plagues nor so malignant
E’er showed she with all Ethiopia,
Nor with whatever on the Red Sea is!
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 24

2026-03-15 07:12:32 UTC

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

2026-03-14 13:56:35 UTC

“Some compensation find, that the time pass not
Idly;” and he: “Thou seest I think of that.
My son, upon the inside of these rocks,”
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 11

2026-03-13 13:35:32 UTC

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 19:03:52 UTC

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 15:50:56 UTC

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 10:55:45 UTC

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 05:32:37 UTC

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

2026-03-08 12:13:30 UTC

My greedy eyes still wandered up to heaven,
Still to that point where slowest are the stars,
Even as a wheel the nearest to its axle.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 8

2026-03-07 09:22:32 UTC

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

2026-03-06 14:30:34 UTC

Upon your consciences, that limpidly
Through them descend the river of the mind,
Tell me, for dear ’twill be to me and gracious,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 13

2026-03-05 19:20:34 UTC

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

2026-03-04 17:48:09 UTC

Naked of me short while the flesh had been,
Before within that wall she made me enter,
To bring a spirit from the circle of Judas;
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 9

2026-03-03 18:59:44 UTC

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 21:17:05 UTC

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 01:17:50 UTC

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 19:31:19 UTC

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 00:31:03 UTC

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 18:47:01 UTC

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 21:37:59 UTC

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 01:32:41 UTC

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 03:41:28 UTC

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 00:51:37 UTC

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 06:23:25 UTC

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 06:37:23 UTC

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 09:19:18 UTC

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 11:27:33 UTC

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 13:44:44 UTC

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 19:34:24 UTC

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

2026-02-16 18:25:51 UTC

“Adhaesit pavimento anima mea,”
I heard them say with sighings so profound,
That hardly could the words be understood.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 19

2026-02-15 17:34:04 UTC

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 20:27:58 UTC

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

2026-02-13 23:56:02 UTC

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

2026-02-13 03:43:11 UTC

They’ll be thy light unto the How thou sayest.
The perfect blood, which never is drunk up
Into the thirsty veins, and which remaineth
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 25

2026-02-12 11:22:15 UTC

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 10:06:18 UTC

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 16:22:31 UTC

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 18:11:23 UTC

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 18:23:54 UTC

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 17:22:07 UTC

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

2026-02-06 16:36:51 UTC

But I put forth on the high open sea
With one sole ship, and that small company
By which I never had deserted been.
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 26

2026-02-05 14:59:00 UTC

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 19:15:16 UTC

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 15:42:05 UTC

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 20:20:52 UTC

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

2026-01-29 23:21:17 UTC

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 22:45:51 UTC

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 00:53:29 UTC

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 20:30:37 UTC

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 21:57:36 UTC

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

2026-01-24 17:45:38 UTC

Tisiphone is between;” and then was silent.
Each one her breast was rending with her nails;
They beat them with their palms, and cried so loud,
That I for dread pressed close unto the Poet.
“Medusa come, so we to stone will change him!”
All shouted looking down; “in evil hour
Avenged we not on Theseus his assault!”
“Turn thyself round, and keep thine eyes close shut,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 9

2026-01-23 13:37:38 UTC

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

2026-01-22 20:39:16 UTC

Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!”
These words in sombre colour I beheld
Written upon the summit of a gate;
Whence I: “Their sense is, Master, hard to me!”
And he to me, as one experienced:
“Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned,
All cowardice must needs be here extinct.
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 3

2026-01-21 22:36:56 UTC

From him already we departed were,
And made endeavour to o’ercome the road
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,
As seizes him who to his death is going.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 20

2026-01-20 19:53:01 UTC

By ones and twos and threes, and the others stand
Timidly, holding down their eyes and nostrils,
And what the foremost does the others do,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 3

2026-01-19 23:17:24 UTC

And he to me: “Across the turbid waves
What is expected thou canst now discern,
If reek of the morass conceal it not.”
Cord never shot an arrow from itself
That sped away athwart the air so swift,
As I beheld a very little boat
Come o’er the water tow’rds us at that moment,
Under the guidance of a single pilot,
Who shouted, “Now art thou arrived, fell soul?”
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 8

2026-01-19 06:23:58 UTC

It made reply to me: “Even as I loved thee
In mortal body, so I love thee free;
Therefore I stop; but wherefore goest thou?”
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 2

2026-01-18 03:23:18 UTC

With less disdain, than when is set aside
The Holy Writ, or when it is distorted.
They think not there how much of blood it costs
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 29

2026-01-17 06:14:15 UTC

Then with mine eyes ashamed and downward cast,
Fearing my words might irksome be to him,
From speech refrained I till we reached the river.
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 3

2026-01-16 10:54:41 UTC

Whence he provided with his phalanxes
To trample down the soil, because the vapour
Better extinguished was while it was single;
Thus was descending the eternal heat,
Whereby the sand was set on fire, like tinder
Beneath the steel, for doubling of the dole.
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 14

2026-01-15 09:45:37 UTC

All motion, for my limbs that heavy are,
I have an arm unfettered for such need.”
Whereat he answer made: “When thou didst go
Unto the fire, thou hadst it not so ready:
But hadst it so and more when thou wast coining.”
The dropsical: “Thou sayest true in that;
But thou wast not so true a witness there,
Where thou wast questioned of the truth at Troy.”
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 30

2026-01-14 10:01:17 UTC

To do for thee what thou’lt not do for me;
But since God willeth that in thee shine forth
Such grace of his, I’ll not be chary with thee;
Know, then, that I Guido del Duca am.
My blood was so with envy set on fire,
That if I had beheld a man make merry,
Thou wouldst have seen me sprinkled o’er with pallor.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 14

2026-01-13 17:39:24 UTC

And by the hair it held the head dissevered,
Hung from the hand in fashion of a lantern,
And that upon us gazed and said: “O me!”
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 28

2026-01-12 13:55:25 UTC

Among the daughters of Adam art, and blessed
For evermore shall be thy loveliness.”
After the flowers and other tender grasses
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 29

2026-01-11 08:23:33 UTC

O how bewildered unto me appeared,
With tongue asunder in his windpipe slit,
Curio, who in speaking was so bold!
And one, who both his hands dissevered had,
The stumps uplifting through the murky air,
So that the blood made horrible his face,
Cried out: “Thou shalt remember Mosca also,
Who said, alas! ‘A thing done has an end!’
Which was an ill seed for the Tuscan people.”
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 28

2026-01-10 09:54:26 UTC

To look at me more than the other foul ones?”
And I to him: “Because, if I remember,
I have already seen thee with dry hair,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 18

2026-01-09 13:45:15 UTC

So fair a hatchment will not make for her
The Viper marshalling the Milanese
A-field, as would have made Gallura’s Cock.”
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 8

2026-01-08 18:12:50 UTC

Fly with thine eyes all round about this garden;
For seeing it will discipline thy sight
Farther to mount along the ray divine.
And she, the Queen of Heaven, for whom I burn
Wholly with love, will grant us every grace,
Because that I her faithful Bernard am.”
As he who peradventure from Croatia
Cometh to gaze at our Veronica,
Who through its ancient fame is never sated,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 31

2026-01-07 17:25:40 UTC

Tossed by the waves, now starboard and now larboard.
Thereafter saw I leap into the body
Of the triumphal vehicle a Fox,
That seemed unfed with any wholesome food.
But for his hideous sins upbraiding him,
My Lady put him to as swift a flight
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 32

2026-01-06 21:38:26 UTC

Which mourns its avarice, to purify me,
For its opposite has this befallen me.”
“Now when thou sangest the relentless weapons
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 22

2026-01-05 23:36:46 UTC

Outwardly darkens, as the mind is sad.
“God seeth all things, and in Him, blest spirit,
Thy sight is,” said I, “so that never will
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 9

2026-01-05 22:29:25 UTC

Alike from thee, the other more remote
Between the former two shall meet thine eyes.
Turned towards these, cause that behind thy back
Be placed a light, illuming the three mirrors
And coming back to thee by all reflected.
Though in its quantity be not so ample
The image most remote, there shalt thou see
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 2

2026-01-05 01:20:18 UTC

Drew them unto itself with the old net
When forcibly my sight was turned away
Towards my left hand by those goddesses,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 32

2026-01-04 02:14:30 UTC

But still, whence cometh the intelligence
Of the first notions, man is ignorant,
And the affection for the first allurements,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 18

2026-01-02 23:12:35 UTC

The water was more sombre far than perse;
And we, in company with the dusky waves,
Made entrance downward by a path uncouth.
A marsh it makes, which has the name of Styx,
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,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 7

2026-01-01 18:55:23 UTC

When first I tasted of the Tuscan air;
And then when grace was freely given to me
To enter the high wheel which turns you round,
Your region was allotted unto me.
To you devoutly at this hour my soul
Is sighing, that it virtue may acquire
For the stern pass that draws it to itself.
“Thou art so near unto the last salvation,”
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 22

2025-12-31 19:27:04 UTC

Bagnacaval does well in not begetting
And ill does Castrocaro, and Conio worse,
In taking trouble to beget such Counts.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 14

2025-12-31 19:26:39 UTC

By counterpoising one side with the other.
Within the crystal which, around the world
Revolving, bears the name of its dear leader,
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 21