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Dolce far niente (Sweet Nothings)
The Inferno, Canto 18, lines 130-132: Thais is this, the harlot, whose false lip Answer’d her doting paramour that ask’d, ‘Thankest me much!’
The Inferno, Canto 28, lines 30,31: Now mark how I do rip me: lo! How is Mahomet mangled.
The Inferno, Canto 34, lines 20-21: “Lo!” he exclaim’d, “lo Dis! and lo the place, Where thou hast need to arm thy heart with strength.”
The Inferno, Canto 28, lines 116-119: By the hair It bore the sever’d member, lantern-wise Pendent in hand, which look’d at us and said, “Woe’s me!”
The Inferno, Canto 7, lines 8-9: "Curs’d wolf! thy fury inward on thyself Prey, and consume thee!”
The Inferno, Canto 7, lines 118-119: “Now seest thou, son! The souls of those, whom anger overcame.”
The Inferno, Canto 15, lines 28-29: “Sir! Brunetto! And art thou here?”
"Ser Brunetto! And are ye here?" (Canto XV., lines 28-29)
The Inferno, Canto 13, line 120: “Haste now,” the foremost cried, “now haste thee death!”
The Inferno, Canto 25, lines 59-61: The other two Look’d on exclaiming: “Ah, how dost thou change, Agnello!”
Cast themselves, one by one, down from the shore (Canto III., line 108)
Where thou has need to arm thy heart with strength. (Canto XXXIV., line 21)
The Inferno, Canto 29, lines 52-56: Then my sight Was livelier to explore the depth, wherein The minister of the most mighty Lord, All-searching Justice, dooms to punishment The forgers noted on her dread record.
The Inferno, Canto 11, lines 6-7: From the profound abyss, behind the lid Of a great monument we stood retir’d
The Inferno, Canto 18, lines 116-117: “Why greedily thus bendest more on me, Than on these other filthy ones, thy ken?”
The Inferno, Canto 7, lines 65-67: “Not all the gold, that is beneath the moon, Or ever hath been, of these toil-worn souls Might purchase rest for one.”
The Inferno, Canto 30, lines 38-39: “ That is the ancient soul Of wretched Myrrha,”
The Inferno, Canto 12, lines 11-14: and there At point of the disparted ridge lay stretch’d The infamy of Crete, detested brood Of the feign’d heifer
The Inferno, Canto 19, lines 10-11: There stood I like the friar, that doth shrive A wretch for murder doom’d
a panther, nimble, light, (Canto I., line 30)
The Inferno, Canto 23, lines 92-94: “Tuscan, who visitest The college of the mourning hypocrites, Disdain not to instruct us who thou art.”
The Inferno, Canto 14, line 37-39: Unceasing was the play of wretched hands, Now this, now that way glancing, to shake off The heat, still falling fresh.
The Inferno, Canto 28, lines 69-72: call thou to mind Piero of Medicina, if again Returning, thou behold’st the pleasant land That from Vercelli slopes to Mercabo
The Inferno, Canto 22, lines 137-139: But the’ other prov’d A goshawk able to rend well his foe; And in the boiling lake both fell.
The Inferno, Canto 9, lines 124-126: “He answer thus return’d: The arch-heretics are here, accompanied By every sect their followers;”
The Inferno, Canto 17, line 117: New terror I conceiv’d at the steep plunge
The Inferno, Canto 34, lines 133: Thus issuing we again beheld the stars.
The Inferno, Canto 21, lines 50-51: This said, They grappled him with more than hundred hooks
The Inferno, Canto 22, line 70: In pursuit He therefore sped, exclaiming; “Thou art caught.”
The Inferno, Canto 24, lines 89-92: Amid this dread exuberance of woe Ran naked spirits wing’d with horrid fear, Nor hope had they of crevice where to hide, Or heliotrope to charm them out of view.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here. (Canto III., line 9)
Virgin and Child in a Rose-Garden with Two Angels 1480s
Virgin and Child in a Landscape
Triptych of the Family Moreel (central panel) 1484
St John Altarpiece (detail-7) 1474-79
St John Altarpiece (right wing) 1474-79
The Passion (detail 6) 1524-25
