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Updated: May 21, 2025

Like Dante, sad and lonely “souvent seulete et pensive, regretant le temps passé” like him she also realised the thirst for knowledge as an ever-present want of the soul, and that its ultimate perfection is only to be attained by following after virtue and knowledge.

Alice Kemp-Welch - Of Six Mediæval Women: To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens