“Hiis visis, manifestum est quod duplex oportet esse subiectum circa quod currant alterni sensus. Et ideo videndum est de subiecto huius operis, prout ad litteram accipitur; deinde de subiecto, prout allegorice sententiatur. Est ergo subiectum totius operis, litteraliter tantum accepti, status animarum post mortem simpliciter sumptus. Nam de illo et circa illum totius operis versatur processus. Si vero accipiatur opus allegorice, subiectum est homo, prout merendo et demerendo per arbitrii libertatem iustitie premiandi et puniendi obnoxius est.”
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”
Dante Alighieri
“Nature is the art of God.”
Dante Alighieri
“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”
Dante Alighieri
“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
Dante Alighieri
“Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
Dante Alighieri