Dante Alighieri

“Chapter XIV, lines 49”

“Ella è quanto de ben pò far natura; per essemplo di lei bieltà si prova. She is the sum of nature's universe. To her perfection all of beauty tends.”

“Chapter I, First Sonnet”

“ne le braccia avea madonna involta in un drappo dormendo. Poi la svegliava, e d'esto core ardendo lei paventosa umilmente pascea: appresso gir lo ne vedea piangendo. In his arms, my lady lay asleep, wrapped in a veil. He woke her then and trembling and obedient She ate that burning heart out of his hand ; Weeping I saw him then depart from me.”

“Chapter I (tr. Barbara Reynolds); of love .”

“Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi. Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.”

“Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti [3]”

“Here beginneth the new life.”

“Chapter I, opening lines”

“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. [1] In that book which is My memory ... On the first page That is the chapter when I first met you Appear the words ... Here begins a new life .”