"In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas, Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, Wrote one song--and in my brain I sing it; Drew one angel--borne, see, on my bosom!"

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain