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Dante Alighieri est un poète, écrivain, penseur et homme politique florentin né entre la mi-mai et la mi-juin 1265 à Florence et mort le 14 septembre 1321 à Ravenne.

« Père de la langue italienne »,, il est, avec Pétrarque et Boccace, l'une des « trois couronnes » qui imposèrent le toscan comme langue littéraire.

Poète majeur du Moyen Âge, il est l'auteur de la Divine Comédie, souvent considérée comme la plus grande œuvre écrite dans cet idiome et l'un des chefs-d'œuvre de la littérature mondiale.



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✵ 30. mai 1265 – 14. septembre 1321
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Dante Alighieri citations célèbres

“« O vaine gloire du génie humain combien peu de temps verdit la cime, si ne surviennent des âges grossiers!”

Le Purgatoire (1308-1321), Chant onzième
Source: « Combien courte est la gloire de ceux qui paraissent avoir atteint le sommet de l’art, si la barbarie, en arrêtant le progrès, n’empêche pas que d’autres s’élèvent au-dessus d’eux. »

“Je ne te donnerai », dit-il, « d'autre réponse
que par l'action; car la juste requête
doit être suivie par l'acte sans discours.”

« Altra risposta », disse, « non tu rendo
se non lo far ; ché la dimanda onesta
si de' seguir con l'opera tacendo. »
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L'Enfer (1308-1321), Chant vingt-quatrième

Dante Alighieri: Citations en anglais

“It hither, thither, downward, upward, drives them.”

Dante Alighieri livre Inferno

Canto V, line 43 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.”

Dante Alighieri livre Le Purgatoire

Canto XI, lines 100–102 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“If thou art, Reader, slow now to believe
What I shall say, it will no marvel be,
For I who saw it hardly can admit it.”

Dante Alighieri livre Inferno

Canto XXV, lines 46–48 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.”

Dante Alighieri livre Le Purgatoire

Canto XXX, lines 118–120 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“Do not rest in so profound a doubt except she tell it thee, who shall be a light between truth and intellect. I know not if thou understand: I speak of Beatrice.”

Dante Alighieri livre Le Purgatoire

Canto VI, lines 43–46 (tr. Carlyle-Wicksteed).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“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.”

Dante Alighieri livre Vita Nuova

Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter I, opening lines (as reported in The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell)

“To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.”

Dante Alighieri livre Le Purgatoire

Canto I, lines 1–3 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another man's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.”

Dante Alighieri livre Paradiso

Canto XVII, lines 58–60 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

“I came into a place void of all light,
which bellows like the sea in tempest,
when it is combated by warring winds.”

Dante Alighieri livre Inferno

Canto V, lines 28–30 (tr. Charles S. Singleton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“Pride, Envy, and Avarice are
the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.”

Dante Alighieri livre Inferno

Canto VI, lines 74–75 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“Abandon all hope, you who enter here.”

Dante Alighieri livre Inferno

Canto III, line 9.
Often quoted with the translated form "Abandon hope all ye who enter here". The word "all" modifies hope, not those who enter: "ogni speranza" means "all hope".
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“Now who art thou, that on the bench wouldst sit
In judgment at a thousand miles away,
With the short vision of a single span?”

Dante Alighieri livre Paradiso

Canto XIX, lines 79–81 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

“Heaven, to keep its beauty,
cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them
for fear the wicked there might glory over them.”

Dante Alighieri livre Inferno

Canto III, lines 40–42 (tr. Mark Musa).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“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.”

Dante Alighieri livre Vita Nuova

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.
Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter I, First Sonnet (tr. Mark Musa)

“And sweet to us is such a deprivation,
Because our good in this good is made perfect,
That whatsoe'er God wills, we also will.”

Dante Alighieri livre Paradiso

Canto XX, lines 136–138 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

“The use of men is like a leaf
On bough, which goeth and another cometh.”

Dante Alighieri livre Paradiso

Canto XXVI, lines 137–138 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

“Here one must leave behind all hesitation;
here every cowardice must meet its death.”

Dante Alighieri livre Inferno

Canto III, lines 14–15 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“Morality is the beauty of Philosophy.”

Trattato Terzo, Ch. 15.
Il Convivio (1304–1307)

“A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.”

Dante Alighieri livre Inferno

Canto XXIV, lines 77–78 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“Against a better will the will fights ill,…”

Dante Alighieri livre Le Purgatoire

Canto XX, line 1 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“From that point
Dependent is the heaven and nature all.”

Dante Alighieri livre Paradiso

Canto XXVIII, lines 41–42 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

“Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubs
Which of itself alone this land produces.”

Dante Alighieri livre Le Purgatoire

Canto XXVII, lines 134–135 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“And you, the living soul, you over there
get away from all these people who are dead.”

Dante Alighieri livre Inferno

Canto III, lines 88–89 (tr. Mark Musa).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“The night that hides things from us.”

Dante Alighieri livre Paradiso

Canto XXIII, line 3 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

“Through me the way into the suffering city,
through me the way to eternal pain,
through me the way that runs among the lost.”

Dante Alighieri livre Inferno

Canto III, lines 1–3 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“To the right hand I turned, and fixed my mind
Upon the other pole, and saw four stars
Ne'er seen before save by the primal people.”

Dante Alighieri livre Le Purgatoire

Canto I, lines 22–24 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

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