etternale
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[edit]etternale (plural etternali)
- (archaic) Alternative form of eternale
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Inferno[1], lines 31–33, 37; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Quali Alessandro in quelle parti calde
d'Indïa vide sopra 'l süo stuolo
fiamme cadere infino a terra salde,
[…]
tale scendeva l’etternale ardore- As Alexander, in those torrid parts
of India, beheld upon his host
flames fall unbroken till they reached the ground,
[…]
thus was descending the eternal heat
- As Alexander, in those torrid parts