Dante's Amrit Vela

davidsmith208
Aug 14, 2017
1 min read

In Canto IX of Purgatorio Dante describes the morning as:

At that hour close to morning when the swallow begins her melancholy songs, perhaps in memory of her ancient sufferings,

When, free to wander farther from the flesh and less held fast by cares, our intellect's envisionings become almost divine-

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