“And you, the living soul, you over there
get away from all these people who are dead.”

—  Dante Alighieri , book Inferno

Canto III, lines 88–89 (tr. Mark Musa).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

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E tu che se' costì, anima viva, pàrtiti da cotesti che son morti.

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

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