“She is the sum of nature's universe.
To her perfection all of beauty tends.”

Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter XIV, lines 49–50 (tr. Barbara Reynolds)

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Ella è quanto de ben pò far natura; per essemplo di lei bieltà si prova.

La Vita Nuova (1293)

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