Facean vedere, e del mondo e di Deo.
L’un l’altro ha spento, ed è giunta la spada
Col pastorale: e l’un coll ’altro insieme
Per viva forza mal convien che vada.[J]
Purgatorio, Canto 26.
Rome, that turned once the world to good
Was wont to boast two suns, whose several beams
Cast light in either way; the world’s and God’s.
One since has quenched the other, and the sword