Dante Alighieri

Quotes

• “Time in culture is capable of many arrangements. Dante read today sets up different relations, very likely, from Dante r...”
• “For in every action what is primarily intended by the doer, whether he acts from natural necessity or out of free will, ...”
• “Dante does not come before us as a large catholic mind; rather as a narrow, and even sectarian mind: it is partly the fr...”
• “Nam in omni actione principaliter intenditur ab agente, sive necessitate naturae, sive voluntarie agat, propriam similit...”
• “In The Divine Comedy, Dante reserved a special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for people who charged usurious inter...”
• “Dante Alighieri wrote in the fourteenth century that the spirit of poetry abounds "in the tangled constructions and defe...”
• “Henry Powell Spring in 1944; popularized by John F. Kennedy misquoting Dante (24 June 1963). Dante placed those who "non...”
• “And you, beloved children, whose lot it is to promote learning under the magisterium of the Church, continue as you are ...”
• “I wanted my illustrations for the Dante to be like the faint markings of moisture in a divine cheese. This explains thei...”
• “His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought; and many yet li...”
• “Variant translation: He enjoys an immortal reputation because he is seldom read. Everyone knows by heart some twenty quo...”
• “Pope Francis, Message to the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture for the solemn celebration of the 750th ann...”
• “Letter to Can Grande (Epistle XIII, 23-25), as translated by Charles Singleton in his essay "Two Kinds of Allegory" publ...”
• “Sa réputation s'affermira toujours, parce qu'on ne le lit guère. II y a de lui une vingtaine de traits qu'on sait par cœ...”
• “Now the kind of philosophy under which we proceed in the whole and in the part is moral philosophy or ethics; because th...”
• “Dante's corpus as a whole is in certain respects like a testament to the closing medieval age; it shows what the Western...”
• “In his arms, my lady lay asleep, wrapped in a veil.He woke her then and trembling and obedientShe ate that burning heart...”
• “In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vi...”
• “His reputation will last because he is little read. Twenty pointed things in him are known by rote, which spare people t...”
• “Genus vero philosophie, sub quo hic in toto et parte proceditur, est morale negotium, sive ethica; quia non ad speculand...”
• “Often quoted with the translated form "Abandon hope all ye who enter here". The word "all" modifies hope, not those who ...”
• “Libri iii, Caput XIII, (XV.) emendati Johann Heinrich F. Karl Witte (1874) p. 25. Translation as quoted by Hannah Arendt...”
• “Dante's Inferno was the first book to give me a real thrill. I thought Doré's drawings in it remarkable, and I became ex...”
• “Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Historical view of the literature of the south of Europe, translated by Thomas Roscoe,...”
• “That great genius conceived, in his vast imagination, the mysteries of the invisible creation, and unveiled them to the ...”
• “Letter to Can Grande (Epistle XIII, 40), as translated by Charles Latham in A Translation of Dante's Eleven Letters (189...”
• “In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria, dinanzi a la quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica, la quale...”
• “In that book which is My memory... On the first page That is the chapter when I first met you Appear the words... Here b...”
• “Augusto Del Noce, Gilson Étienne in Enciclopedia dantesca, vol. III, Roma, 1971, p. 33. Reported in 30Giorni.it, article...”
• “I saw within Its depth how It conceivesall things in a single volume bound by Love,of which the universe is the scattere...”
• “Love and the gracious heart are a single thing...one can no more be without the otherthan the reasoning mind without its...”
• “When I had journeyed half of our life's way,I found myself within a shadowed forest,for I had lost the path that does no...”
• “Cardinal Giacomo Biffi. As quoted in Antonio Socci, Il (vero) Dante che non sentite da Benigni, Lo Straniero (March 10, ...”
• “Massimo Introvigne, "Japan, Pamphlets Against Conservative Religion Distributed in Schools", Bitter Winter (March 8, 202...”
• “Redeth the grete poete of Itaille,That highte Dant, for he can al devyseFro point to point, nat o word wol he faille.”
• “See Canticle I (Inferno), Canto 3, vv 35-42 for the notion of neutrality and where JFK might have paraphrased from.”
• “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.”
• “Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.”
• “Pupi Avati. As quoted in Giuliana Poli, Pupi Avati: «Dante, un eterno bambino», Avvenire (February 7, 2024)”
• “Grace Dillon "Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms" (2021)”
• “Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa...e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osacom'alma razional sanza ragione.”
• “Nel suo profondo vidi che s'interna,legato con amore in un volume,ciò che per l'universo si squaderna.”
• “Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita,mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,ché la diritta via era smarrita.”
• “Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona de la mia donna disiosamente... che lo 'ntelletto sovr'esse disvia.”
• “Chapter I, opening lines (as reported in The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell.)”
• “I love Dante almost as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food, the rest is ballast.”
• “Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1390), The Monkes Tale, lines 3650-3652.”
• “Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 'Dante' (1765), trans. William F. Fleming.”
• “Edmund Dorr Griffin, in Remains of the Rev. Edmund D. Griffin (1831), p. 335.”
• “Love hath so long possessed me for his ownAnd made his lordship so familiar.”