Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42
Dante AlighieriAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: italian
- Born: June 1, 1265
- Died: September 14, 1321
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