As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. ✨ Dante Alighieri (1982…

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. ✨ Dante Alighieri (1982). The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. ✨ Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). The inferno, Signet
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice. ✨ The Divine Comedy.
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the … ▶
Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ✨ Dante Alighieri (2013). The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic, p.24, Vintage

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. ✨ Dante Alighieri (1982). The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation

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