“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 , book Inferno

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

Original

Io venni in luogo d'ogni luce muto, | che mugghia come fa mar per tempesta, | se da contrari venti è combattuto.

da Inferno, V, 28-30
Variant: Io venni in loco d'ogne luce muto,
che mugghia come fa mar per tempesta,
se da contrari venti è combattuto.

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Italian poet 1265–1321

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