“Give us this day the daily manna, without which, in this rough desert, he backward goes, who toils most to go on.”

Canto XI, lines 13–15 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

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Italian poet 1265–1321

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