“A thing done has an end!”

—  Dante Alighieri , book Inferno

Canto XXVIII, line 107 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

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Capo ha cosa fatta.

The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

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