Purgatorio 11.100–102

Oderisi to Dante, on the fame of painters and poets

Non è il mondan romore altro ch’un fiato

di vento, ch’or vien quinci e or vien quindi,

e muta nome perché muta lato.

Worldly rumor is nothing but a breath

of wind, which now comes from here and now from there,

and changes name because it changes side.

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