Dante Alighieri Quote

O vain renown of human enterprise, no longer lasting than the greenery of the trees, unless succeeded by an uncouth age.
In painting Cimabue was thought to hold the field; now Giotto has the palm, so that he has obscured the other's fame.


Divina Commedia 'Purgatorio' canto 11, l. 91


O vain renown of human enterprise, no longer lasting than the greenery of the trees, unless succeeded by an uncouth age. In painting Cimabue was...

O vain renown of human enterprise, no longer lasting than the greenery of the trees, unless succeeded by an uncouth age. In painting Cimabue was...

O vain renown of human enterprise, no longer lasting than the greenery of the trees, unless succeeded by an uncouth age. In painting Cimabue was...

O vain renown of human enterprise, no longer lasting than the greenery of the trees, unless succeeded by an uncouth age. In painting Cimabue was...