Q0390

Dante Alighieri

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
Thinker Dante Alighieri
School Medieval Thought
Source Inferno III.9
Theme Hope
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Inferno III.9, within the tradition of Medieval Thought. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of hope, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Dante Alighieri's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

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MLA: Dante Alighieri. “Abandon all hope, you who enter here..” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0390.

Chicago: Dante Alighieri. “Abandon all hope, you who enter here..” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0390.

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More on hope

  1. There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
  2. Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
  3. Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being… a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me.
  4. Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination.
  5. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

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