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108<br />
INF C12 103-105 / DANTE INF C12 103-105 / KLINE<br />
Io vidi gente sotto infino al ciglio; I saw see people immersed as far as the eyebrows,<br />
e 'l gran centauro disse: «E' son tiranni and the great Centaur said: These are tyrants<br />
che dier nel sangue e ne l'aver di piglio. who indulged in blood, and rapine.<br />
SOME WORDS FROM [INF C12 103-138] ORIGINALLY SPOKEN BY NESSUS.<br />
VIRGIL:<br />
INF C12 106-108 / DANTE INF C12 106-108 / KLINE<br />
Quivi si piangon li spietati danni; Here they lament their offences, done without<br />
quivi è Alessandro, e Dïonisio fero mercy. Here is Alexander, and fierce Dionysius of<br />
che fé Cicilia aver dolorosi anni. Syracuse who gave Sicily years of pain.<br />
DIONYSIUS OF SYRACUSE: THE ELDER, TYRANT OF SYRACUSE (405-367 BC). HE LED THE GREEK CITIES OF SICILY IN<br />
RESISTANCE TO THE CARTHAGINIANS.<br />
INF C12 109-111 / DANTE INF C12 109-111 / KLINE<br />
E quella fronte c'ha 'l pel così nero, That head of black hair is Azzolino,<br />
è Azzolino; e quell' altro ch'è biondo, and the other, which is blonde,<br />
è Opizzo da Esti, il qual per vero is Obizzo da Este, whose life<br />
AZZOLINO (EZZELLINO) III DA ROMANO, THE TYRANT (1194-1259): LORD OF VERONA, VICENZA & PADUA, CALLED ‘THE<br />
SON OF THE DEVIL’, IMPERIAL VICAR UNDER FREDERICK II. POPE ALEXANDER IV DECLARED A CRUSADE AGAINST HIM & HE<br />
WAS DEFEATED AT CASSANO ON THE ADDA & SUBSEQUENTLY DIED. HE WAS THE HEAD OF THE GHIBELLINES IN NORTHERN<br />
ITALY.<br />
OBIZZO DA ESTE, OBIZZO II OF ESTE, FOURTH MARQUIS OF FERRARA, WHO HAD LED THE GUELPH CRUSADERS AGAINST<br />
EZZELINO. OBIZZO, DYING IN 1293, WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY HIS SON & SUCCESSOR AZZO VIII (FROM 1293-<br />
1308), WHOM DANTE CALLS HIS STEPSON IN REFERENCE TO THE UNNATURAL NATURE OF THE CRIME. HIS DAUGHTER<br />
BEATRICE MARRIED NINO DE’ VISCONTI OF PISA, THEN GALEOZZO VISCONTI OF MILAN.<br />
DANTE versifies:<br />
INF C12 106-108 / DANTE INF C12 106-108 / KLINE<br />
Quivi si piangon li spietati danni; Here they lament their offences, done without<br />
quivi è Alessandro, e Dïonisio fero mercy. Here is Alexander, and fierce Dionysius of<br />
che fé Cicilia aver dolorosi anni. Syracuse who gave Sicily years of pain.<br />
INF C12 109-111 / DANTE INF C12 109-111 / KLINE<br />
E quella fronte c'ha 'l pel così nero, That head of black hair is Azzolino,<br />
è Azzolino; e quell' altro ch'è biondo, and the other, which is blonde,<br />
è Opizzo da Esti, il qual per vero is Obizzo da Este, whose life<br />
INF C12 112-114 / DANTE<br />
fu spento dal figliastro sù nel mondo. was quenched, in truth, by his stepson, up in the<br />
Allor mi volsi al poeta, e quei disse: world. Then I turned to the poet, and he said:<br />
«Questi ti sia or primo, e io secondo». ‘Let him guide you first, now, and I second.’<br />
INF C12 115-117 / DANTE<br />
A little further on, Nessus paused, next to people who seemed to be sunk in the boiling stream up to their throat.<br />
VIRGIL:<br />
INF C12 118-120 / DANTE INF C12 118-120 / KLINE<br />
Mostrocci un'ombra da l'un canto sola, He showed us a shade, apart by itself, saying: That<br />
dicendo: «Colui fesse in grembo a Dio one, Guy de Montfort, in God’s church, pierced<br />
lo cor che 'n su Tamisi ancor si cola». that heart that is still venerated by the Thames<br />
– Henry’s, the nephew of the king.<br />
GUY DE MONTFORT: SON OF SIMON DE MONTFORT, EARL OF LEICESTER. HE AVENGED THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER AT THE<br />
BATTLE OF EVESHAM (1265) WHERE EDWARD (LATER EDWARD I) DEFEATED THE ENGLISH BARONS, WHEN, IN 1271, WHILE<br />
VICAR GENERAL OF TUSCANY HE MURDERED HENRY, HIS COUSIN, THE SON OF RICHARD, EARL OF CORNWALL, THE NEPHEW<br />
OF THE ENGLISH KING, IN THE CHURCH OF SAN SILVESTRO AT VITERBO. HENRY’S HEART WAS PLACED IN A GOLD CASKET &<br />
SET ON A PILLAR BY LONDON BRIDGE, OR IN THE HAND OF HIS STATUE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.<br />
INF C12 121-123 / KLINE<br />
Then I saw others, who held their heads and all their chests, likewise, free of the river: and I knew many of these.<br />
INF C12 124-126 / DANTE INF C12 124-126 / KLINE<br />
Così a più a più si facea basso So the The blood grew grows shallower and<br />
quel sangue, sì che cocea pur li piedi; shallower, until it only cooked cooks their feet,<br />
e quindi fu del fosso il nostro passo. and here was is our ford through the ditch.<br />
VIRGIL CROSSES THE FORD, FOLLOWED BY DANTE, WHO VERSIFIES.