“I wept not, I within so turned to stone.”

— Dante Alighieri , book Inferno

Canto XXXIII, line 49 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

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Io non piangëa, sì dentro impetrai.

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

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