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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

Dante Alighieri
Memories, Book, New Life

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

Dante Alighieri
Memories, Book, New Life

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Dante Alighieri
Dream, Memories, Lying
Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

Dante Alighieri
Pain, Memories, Grief
Dante Alighieri (1982). “The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi”, Signet

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

Dante Alighieri
Memories, Sadness, Joy
Dante Alighieri (2009). “I'll Tell what I Saw: Images from Dante's Divine Comedy”

In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

Dante Alighieri
Memories, Book, Purpose
Dante Alighieri (2015). “La Vita Nuova: The New Life”, p.12, The Floating Press

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