Dante Alighieri, the great poet and thinker, the forerunner of the Renaissance, was born in Florence in 1265. He came from a noble Roman family who participated in the founding of Florence. In his hometown, Dante received his basic education, and then continued his studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna. In Bologna, Dante met many poets of that time, and Guido Guinitelli, the founder of the so-called "sweet style" in poetry, had a strong influence on him. The new style assumed the free expression of the poet's feelings and experiences, the breadth of the use of words, the general availability of the language of new poetry.
Dante Alighieri was a poet, literary critic, theologian and politician. He went down in the history of world literature as the author of a monumental epic work - "La divina commedia" ("Divine Comedy"), which reflected a view from the point of view of Christian morality on the mortal and short human life.
Halfway through earthly life,
I found myself in a gloomy forest ...
The souls of people, as in mirrors, are reflected in each other.
Follow your path and let other people say whatever you want.
Pride, greed, envy -
There are three burning sparks in the hearts that never sleep.
Believe me - when there are no mean thoughts in us,
We shouldn't be afraid of anything.
Evil to one's neighbor is where the source of troubles is,
It will throw it into the abyss, it may happen.
The deception that all hearts are familiar with
Harmful to those who trust
And those who did not trust in anything.
It's time for you to find out
What at first seems to be
Every mountain is always steep.
Whoever does not surrender himself is invincible.
And if the whole world has become vicious,
That was the only reason
The man himself: - only he is the source of troubles,
He is the only creator of his sorrows. 
After all, very often the haste of thoughts
Leads to the wrong path recklessly;
And there addictions bind the mind.
All before that reason became weak,
That people believe every lie
And the crowd would come to any promise.
We were not born for this,
To drag out a miserable existence,
But to the end, the truth must
We strive for the good and the light of knowledge!
"Divine Comedy", which is really just "Comedy", and which no one has read, but everyone knows what hell is there. Alas, the fate of the titans of the Renaissance in post-post modernity is unenviable! Everyone remembers only the name. But Dante Alighieri is indeed a titanium! He created Italian literature and several of the greatest works, painted heaven and hell for all mankind. He led a political struggle for power in his native Florence, and then lived in exile for a long time.
Dante in exile. Frederick Leighton. 1864 
Created one of the most romantic love stories in human history.
Henry Holiday. Dante and Beatrice meet. 
Rossetti. Dante and Beatrice meet in paradise 
This is one of the main incarnations of the images of the Creator and the Exile in world culture. The person most often depicted wearing a laurel wreath.
Fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1499-1502, Chapel of San Brizio
Dante's striking memory
As an example of the amazing memory that Dante supposedly possessed, the following legend is told.
When Dante lived in Florence, he used to go in the evening to the square, then called Santa Reparata, and today Santa Maria del Fiore, in order to breathe fresh air there.
One evening, a stranger comes up to him and asks him a question:
- My sir, I have undertaken to give an answer and I do not know how to do it.
I have to answer the following question: - What is the most delicious food?
Dante replied immediately: - An egg.
A year later, when Dante was sitting on the same blockage, the same stranger again approached him and asked him:
- With what?
And Dante: - With salt.
Monument to Dante in Piazza Croce, Florence. 
Deception and power are the weapons of the wicked.
Wisdom
The wisest person is the one who is most annoyed by the loss of time.
Torment
There is no greater torment than a happy time to remember.
Doubts
Doubt gives me no less pleasure than knowledge.
Compassion
Compassion is not a feeling; rather, it is a noble disposition of the soul, ready to receive love, mercy and other virtuous feelings.
on other topics
The waters that I step into have never been crossed.
Do not act against the deity of lovers: whatever means you use, you will lose the battle, be sure.
The hottest corners in hell are reserved for those who remained neutral during the greatest moral upheavals.
Follow your path and let people say whatever.
He suffers from the highest torment, who remembers joyful times in misfortune.
People often float with the passage of time! Meanwhile, our fragile shuttle is equipped with a steering wheel; Why is a person rushing along the waves, and not obeying his own aspirations?
Prepared by Dmitry Sirotkin
Compiled a selection quotes from the Italian poet and thinker Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321).
He is known as creator of The Divine Comedy and one of the founders of the literary Italian language.
Quotes condensed on topics: love, life ethics, good and evil, human manifestations, divine, man, life, death, hell, mind, soul, knowledge, glory, money.
About love
Love moves the sun and other stars.
Love motivates the soul to action.
Whoever does not love, loving, experiences the most terrible torment.
Inspired by love, I say what it tells me.
Always the fire of good love will kindle another, Shining even in the form of a slave trail.
Do not act against the deity of lovers: whatever means you use, you will lose the battle, be sure.
I often thought, tired of sorrow, That I was gloomy through no fault of my own. He felt sorry for himself, blazing as if on fire; He repeated: "The lover has not yet suffered like this!"
You are worthy of any treasure - Your voice has always sounded so pure, But whoever took infidelity as a guide will find no treasure.
Only dead love in hell is alive!
By the way, quotes about love
About life ethics
Follow your path and let other people say whatever you want.
No matter how life hits us, we will hold out.
Do not be afraid of the darkness, although it is terrible to look at.
It is impossible for fear to command the mind; Otherwise, we move away from accomplishments.
Think that this day will never come again.
Each must take on his shoulders work commensurate with his strength, because if his weight is accidentally excessive, then he can involuntarily fall into the mud.
When the desire is just, You must silently follow it.
What you see depends on how you look.
The wisest person is the one who is most annoyed by the loss of time.
About good and evil
The closer each one becomes to perfection, The brighter the good and the more evil the evil.
Not an excuse when someone else does good for us.
Believe me - when there are no mean thoughts in us, We should not be afraid of anything. Evil to one's neighbor is where the source of troubles is, It will throw it into the abyss, it may happen.
Valor disappeared in the human camp, As you said, there is absolutely no good in it, Deceit crushes the world in its trap.
We are a truth that looks like a lie, We must keep our lips closed, Otherwise you will innocently make shame.
Not everything is false, which is incredible.
Deception and power are the tools of the wicked.
About human manifestations
There is no greater torment than remembering happy days in misfortune.
Compassion is not a feeling; rather, it is a noble disposition of the soul, ready to receive love, mercy and other virtuous feelings.
The memory does not change only to the one who sensitively listened to everyone he met.
The deception, which is familiar to all hearts, Harms both those who trust, And those who did not trust in anything.
About mad anger, about blind self-interest, you torment our short earthly age. And torment in eternity, torturing!
The hottest corners in hell are reserved for those who remained neutral during the greatest moral upheavals.
About the divine
It is worth turning your back on the devil, and you will see the way to God.
Oh God's power, how righteous you are the avenger, When you fight like this, without mercy!
The personification of the ideal, something divine that appeared from heaven to give the earth a ray of heavenly bliss, the queen of virtue, clothed in modesty, shining with beauty, she walks among praise, like an angel who descended to earth to show the world a spectacle of her perfections. Her presence gives bliss, pours joy in the hearts. Those who have not seen her cannot understand all the sweetness of her presence.
About a human
Each person is a friend to each other by nature.
A person removes the goal from himself, Changing thoughts every moment.
People often float with the passage of time! Meanwhile, our fragile shuttle is equipped with a steering wheel; why does a person rush along the waves, and not obey his own aspirations?
And if the whole world became corrupted, That was the only reason for that man Himself: only he is the source of troubles, He is the only creator of His sorrows.
About life
Halfway through the earthly life, I found myself in a dark forest, Having lost the right path in the darkness of the valley.
Having slipped out into the world, the soul flies in love, Like a girl that cries and laughs, Childish, ruining life with the first comer.
I was not dead, and I was not alive either; And you can judge alone; Neither that nor that to be - with what it is similar.
About death
We do not live in the world for that death would find us in blissful laziness!
Who can leave the world in tears, Be sure that the eternal image sculpts, That in memory for many years to come Will his longing and awe remain?
About hell
Give up hope, everyone who enters here.
Hell is emptiness, a dismal grave. The living should help the dead.
About reason
There is that power that is called reason. And you are capable of weighing Good and Evil on the scales.
Oh, wise, the powers of reason given to you, do not regret, penetrating into the essence.
About the soul
The human soul is the greatest wonder in the world.
The souls of people, as in mirrors, are reflected in each other.
About knowledge
He who hesitates cannot acquire knowledge.
Doubt gives me no less pleasure than knowledge.
About fame
But glory is like green tops: It is instantly devoured by slugs!
Oh glory! You are fragrant, but also transitory, like a flower!
About money
All the gold and all the riches of the light of the People does not relieve them of worries.
Selfishness is artificial poverty.
About different things
I am sometimes praised, sometimes scolded, sometimes extolled, sometimes blasphemed.
The purpose of every virtue is to make our life more joyful.
A millennium in comparison with eternity is a shorter period than the blink of an eye in comparison with the motion of the slowest celestial body revolving in infinite space.
As is often the case, according to the quotes given, it is not so easy understand what exactly genius was Dante, as well as assess how he stood out among his contemporaries. Perhaps the following quotes about Dante not too capable of helping us with this .
Quotes about Dante
- J. Boccaccio: Dante loved to retire, live as a hermit, so that nothing would interrupt his reflections, and if an entertaining thought occurred to him, then, no matter what society our poet was in and no matter what he was asked about, he answered only after thinking this thought out to the end , accepting it or rejecting it, and so it happened during the hours of crowded meals, and during travel, and in general anytime.
- Voltaire: Dante's fame will be eternal, because no one ever reads him. (by the way, quotes by Voltaire)
- F. Schelling: Dante takes revenge with prophetic power in his "Hell" on behalf of the Last Judgment as a recognized punishing judge, takes revenge not because of personal hatred, but with a pious soul, outraged by the abomination of the time he is experiencing. He softens the horror of the torment of the doomed by his own feeling of it; at the limits of so many groans, it so darkens his eyes that he is ready to cry.
- K. Batyushkov: Dante is a great poet, he speaks to memory, ear, eyes, reason, imagination, heart.
- A. Pushkin: Dante's unified plan "Hell" is already the fruit of a high genius. (by the way, quotes from Pushkin)
- V. Belinsky: Dante was not particularly lucky in Russia, no one translated him and talked about him least of all.
- V. Bryusov: Dante! Dante! Why, this is one of my favorite, if not the most beloved poet - among all! .. for the sake of Dante's translation, I am ready to give up all affairs, even from "Libra". (by the way, quotes from Bryusov