The greatest gift which God in His bounty Bestowed in creating, And the most conformed… — Dante Alighieri
The greatest gift which God in His bounty Bestowed in creating, And the most conformed to His own goodness And that which He most prizes, was the freedom of the will, With which the creatures that have intelligence, They all and they alone, were and are endowed.
In the original Italian
Lo maggior don che Dio per sua larghezza fesse creando, e a la sua bontate più conformato, e quel ch'e' più apprezza, fu de la volontà la libertate; di che le creature intelligenti, e tutte e sole, fuoro e son dotate.
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Alighieri, Dante. "Paradiso." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
Alighieri, Dante. "Paradiso [Paradise]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.
