“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.”
Canto XI, lines 100–102 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
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Non è il mondan romore altro ch'un fiato di vento, ch'or vien quinci e or vien quindi, e muta nome perché muta lato.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
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