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Christian : Catholic
13th Century

About Dante Alighieri

Timeline (1265? - 1321)

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English version by
Stephen Mitchell

Original Language
Italian

The love of God, unutterable and perfect,

Themes
  Bliss
  Garden
  Light
  Lover and Beloved
  Smile

 

Recommended Books

Dark Way to Paradise: Dante's Inferno in Light of the Spiritual Path, by Jennifer Upton / Charles Upton
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso, by Dante Alighieri / Translated by John Ciardi
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell

The love of God, unutterable and perfect,
     flows into a pure soul the way that light
     rushes into a transparent object.
The more love that it finds, the more it gives
     itself; so that, as we grow clear and open,
     the more complete the joy of heaven is.
And the more souls who resonate together,
     the greater the intensity of their love,
     and, mirror-like, each soul reflects the other.

 

 

-- from The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell

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