“The experience of this sweet life.”

—  Dante Alighieri , book Paradiso

Canto XX, lines 47–48 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

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L'esperîenza di questa dolce vita.

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

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