Q0485

Dante Alighieri

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

the Love that moves the sun and the other stars
Thinker Dante Alighieri
School Medieval Thought
Source Paradiso XXXIII.145
Theme Love
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Paradiso XXXIII.145, 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 love, 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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  1. Love is the desire for the perpetual possession of the good.
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  3. If you wish to be loved, love.
  4. Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!
  5. Compassion is the basis of morality.

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