“For all the gold that is beneath the moon,
Or ever has been, of these weary souls
Could never make a single one repose.”

Canto VII, lines 64–66 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

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Italian poet 1265–1321

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