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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Durante degli Alighieri
Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
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Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
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Go right on and listen as thou goest.
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