Giving a thing, an animal or an abstract idea actions, feelings or speech proper to a person.
In Inferno
justice moved my high maker; the divine power made me, the supreme wisdom and the primal love. Before me there were no created things, only eternal ones, and I, eternal, endure. Abandon all hope, you who enter.
The gate speaks in the first person: it says "made me", speaks of its origin and affirms that it "endures" eternal. Giving voice to the portal makes the entrance of Hell seem a being that introduces itself and warns whoever arrives.
love, which quickly seizes the gentle heart, seized this one for the beautiful person who was taken from me, and the manner still offends me; love, which excuses no beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his pleasure that, as you see, it still does not leave me.
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