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Dante Alighieri

(In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria dinanzi a la quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice: Incipit vita nova.)

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: 'Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life'.

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Nessun maggior dolore
        Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
          Nella miseria.

(There is no greater sorrow
  Than to be mindful of the happy time
    In misery.)

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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
        Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
          Che la diritta via era smarrita.

(In the midway of this our mortal life,
  I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
    Gone from the path direct.)

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Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
fecemi la divina podestate,
la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore.
Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate

(THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.)

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