All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; becaus…

Dante Alighieri
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. ✨ Dante Alighieri, Claudia Hamilton Ramsay (1862). Dante's Divina Commedia Translated Into English, in the Metre and Triple Rhyme of the Original with Notes by Ramsay: Purgatorio, p.77
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