“Give us this day the daily manna, without which, in this rough desert, he backward goes, who toils most to go on.”

Canto XI, lines 13–15 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

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Dà oggi a noi la cotidiana manna, sanza la qual per questo aspro diserto a retro va chi più di gir s'affanna.

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

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Italian poet 1265–1321

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