Emira Mir: “Beauty Awakens the Soul to Act” (2022)
Pakistani pop singer Emira Mir posted this image to her Instagram with the comment “Beauty awakens the soul to act,” a loose (but standardized) translation of Purgatorio 18.21: Dante’s “tosto che dal piacere in atto [l’animo] è desto.”
See other examples of uses of the standardized English verse here.
Sighting Citation:
“Emira Mir: “Beauty Awakens the Soul to Act” (2022).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. January 27, 2023. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/emira-mir-beauty-awakens-the-soul-to-act-2022/.
Posted January 27, 2023