A review by kajaglede
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

adventurous challenging inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

bruuuh this man got exiled and came into his rep era, wrote this to diss and expose corruption in the Catholic Church. compared it to the nine circles of hell, climbing purgatory, then finding paradise, guuurl.

major girlboss moves where made in the 1400.
thank u andrew hozier byrne for providing the soundtrack bahha

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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 moved:
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 shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

‘Love, that so soon takes hold in the gentle breast,
Took this lad with the lovely body they tore
From me; the way of it leaves me still distrest.
Love, that to no loved heart remits love's score,
Took me with such great joy of him, that see!
It holds me yet and never shall leave me more.
Love to a single death brought him and me.’

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, 
That without hope we live on in desire.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

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