With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then… — Dante Alighieri

With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused.

In the original Latin

Di quel color che per lo sole avverso nube dipigne da sera e da mane,

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Alighieri, Dante. "Paradiso." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Alighieri, Dante. "Paradiso [Paradise]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.