WIST Quotations moves again!A quotation from Dante Alighieri:
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To what extremes, O cursèd lust for gold
will you not drive man’s appetite?
[Per che non reggi tu, o sacra fame
de l’oro, l’appetito de’ mortali?]
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https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/67420/
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The Divine Comedy [Divina Commedia], Book 2 "Purgatorio," Canto 22, l. 40ff (22.40-41) [Statius] (1314) [tr. Musa (1981)] - Dante Alighieri | WIST Quotations
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