haticesultanas: HISTORY MEME | seven relationships: Dante and Beatrice “Nine times alrea
haticesultanas:HISTORY MEME | seven relationships: Dante and Beatrice “Nine times already since my birth the heaven of light had circled back to almost the same point, when there appeared before my eyes the now glorious lady of my mind, who was called Beatrice even by those who did not know what her name was. She had been in this life long enough for the heaven of the fixed stars to be able to move a twelfth of a degree to the East in her time; that is, she appeared to me at about the beginning of her ninth year, and I first saw her near the end of my ninth year. She appeared dressed in the most patrician of colors, a subdued and decorous crimson, her robe bound round and adorned in a style suitable to her years. At that very moment, and I speak the truth, the vital spirit, the one that dwells in the most secret chamber of the heart, began to tremble so violently that even the most minute veins of my body were strangely affected; and trembling, it spoke these words: Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi [Here is a god stronger than I who comes to rule over me]” – Dante Alighieri, Vita Nova // Neri Marcorè as Dante Alighieri, Matilda Lutz as Beatrice -- source link
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