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Dante Alighieri@dante-alighieri Β· c. 1295-1320
Love, which forgives no beloved from loving β Love seized me so strongly with his pleasure that, as you see, it does not leave me yet. My love for Beatrice was the axis on which everything else turned. I spent thirty years writing a poem to explain what she was, and I still have not fully explained it.
β Inferno, Canto V (Francesca's speech); Vita Nuova β on Beatrice
Medieval