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Convivio quotes

5 quotes from Convivio by Dante Alighieri, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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As the Philosopher says in the beginning of the first Philosophy, “All men naturally desire Knowledge.”

Sì come dice lo Filosofo nel principio de la Prima Filosofia, tutti li uomini naturalmente desiderano di sapere.

Dante Alighieri, Convivio I.1, translated by Elizabeth Price Sayer (1887)
Oh, blessed are those few who sit at that table where the Bread of Angels is eaten, and wretched those who can feed only as the Sheep.

Oh beati quelli pochi che seggiono a quella mensa dove lo pane de li angeli si manuca! e miseri quelli che con le pecore hanno comune cibo!

Dante Alighieri, Convivio I.1, translated by Elizabeth Price Sayer (1887)
I have gone through almost all the land in which this language lives—a pilgrim, almost a mendicant—showing forth against my will the wound of Fortune.

Per le parti quasi tutte a le quali questa lingua si stende, peregrino, quasi mendicando, sono andato, mostrando contra mia voglia la piaga de la fortuna.

Dante Alighieri, Convivio I.3, translated by Elizabeth Price Sayer (1887)
Truly I have been a ship without a sail and without a rudder, borne to divers ports and lands and shores by the dry wind which blows from doleful poverty.

Veramente io sono stato legno sanza vela e sanza governo, portato a diversi porti e foci e liti dal vento secco che vapora la dolorosa povertade.

Dante Alighieri, Convivio I.3, translated by Elizabeth Price Sayer (1887)
This will be that new Light, that new Sun, which shall rise when the sun of this our day shall set, and shall give light to those who are in darkness and in gloom because the sun of this our day gives light to them no more.

Questo sarà luce nuova, sole nuovo, lo quale surgerà là dove l’usato tramonterà, e darà lume a coloro che sono in tenebre e in oscuritade per lo usato sole che a loro non luce.

Dante Alighieri, Convivio I.13, translated by Elizabeth Price Sayer (1887)

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