The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno. Part 2

"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita: In the fictional time of the journey (the year 1300, as will be disclosed later in the poem), Dante, who was born in 1265, is literally midway in the journey of his life-on good scriptural authority (Ps. 89[ 90 ]:10): "Dies annorum nostrorum in ipsis septuaginta anni.""