I am the way to the doleful city
I am the way to eternal grief
I am the way to a forsaken race
Justice it was that moved my great creator
Divine omnipotence created me
Highest wisdom joined with primal love
Before me nothing but eternal things
and I shall last eternally
Abandon every hope all ye who enter
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"Per per si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore;
fecemi la divina podestate,
la somma sapïenza e 'l primo amore.
Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate".
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This is a one of my favorite excerpts of all time so much in fact I can recite this quote from Dante's Inferno by heart. I figured since the original manuscript was in Italian I would try out this program by finding out what the words on the Gate to Inferno according to Dante sounded like in its native tongue.