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SO DEAR AND MUCH ONESTY SHE APPEARS – Poetry by Dante Alighieri

TANTO GENTILE E TANTO ONESTA PARE > Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare la donna mia quand’ella altrui saluta, ch’ogne lingua deven tremando muta, e li occhi no l’ardiscon di guardare. Ella si va, sentendosi laudare, benignamente d’umiltà vestuta; e par che sia una cosa venuta da cielo in terra a miracol mostrare. Mostrasi sì piacente a chi la mira, che dà per li occhi una dolcezza al core, che ‘ntender no la può chi no la prova; e par che de la sua labbia si mova un spirito soave pien d’amore, che va dicendo a l’anima: sospira.

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SO DEAR AND MUCH HONESTY SHE APPEARS > So gentle and so honest she appears my lady when she greets others, that every tongue trembles silent, and eyes do not dare look at her. She walks, feeling praise graciously dressed in humility; and it seems that she is something coming from heaven to earth to show miracle. Show so attractive to those who admires, with eyes that gives a sweetness to the heart, which is not able to understand who does not prove; and it seems that from her lips moves a spirit full of sweet love, that is saying to the soul: he sighs.