Purgatorio 30.49–51
Dante, noticing that Virgil has left
Ma Virgilio n’avea lasciati scemi
di sé, Virgilio dolcissimo patre,
Virgilio a cui per mia salute die’mi;
But Virgil had left us bereft
of himself, Virgil, sweetest father,
Virgil, to whom I gave myself for my salvation;