The reputation which the world bestows is like the wind, that shifts now here now… — Dante Alighieri
The reputation which the world bestows is like the wind, that shifts now here now there, its name changed with the quarter whence it blows.
In the original Italian
Non e il mondan romore altro che un fiato di vento, ch'or vien quinci ed or qien quindi, e muta nome perche muta lato.
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Dante. "The Purgatorio." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
Dante. "Purgatorio [Purgatory]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.