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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Florence
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Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
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