Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes… — Dante Alighieri
Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.
In the original Latin
Non è il mondan romore altro ch'un fiato di vento, ch'or vien quinci e or vien quindi, e muta nome perché 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.
