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140<br />
INF C18 100-118 / KLINE<br />
We had already come to where the narrow causeway crosses the second bank and forms a buttress to a second arch.<br />
Here we heard people whining in the next chasm, and blowing with their muzzles, and striking themselves with their<br />
palms. The banks were crusted, with a mould from the fumes below that condenses on them, and attacks the eyes<br />
and nose. The floor is so deep, that we could not see any part of it, except by climbing to the ridge of the arch, where<br />
the rock is highest. We came there, and from it, in the ditch below, I saw people immersed in excrement, that looked<br />
as if it flowed from human privies. And while I was searching it, down there, with my eyes, I saw one with ahead so<br />
smeared with ordure, that it was not clear if he was clerk or layman.<br />
DANTE LOOKS INTO THE DARKNESS<br />
ALESSIO INTERMINEI (VOICE):<br />
INF C18 118-120 / DANTE INF C18 118-119 / KLINE<br />
Quei mi sgridò: «Perché se' tu sì gordo He shouted at me: Why are you so keen to gaze<br />
di riguardar più me che li altri brutti?». at me more than the other mired ones?<br />
E io a lui: «Perché, se ben ricordo, And I to him: Because, if I remember rightly,<br />
ALESSIO DEGLI INTERMINEI *---- ? - 1295 + AGE : *-- ?<br />
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC<br />
LUCCA.<br />
DESCRIPTION<br />
VOICE ONLY.<br />
ALESSIO DEGLI INTERMINEI: MEMBER OF A PROMINENT FAMILY OF LUCCAN WHITES, ALIVE IN THE YEAR 1295.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C18 121-123 / DANTE INF C18 121-123 / KLINE<br />
già t'ho veduto coi capelli asciutti, I have seen you before with dry head,<br />
e se' Alessio Interminei da Lucca: and you are: Alessio Interminei of Lucca:<br />
però t'adocchio più che li altri tutti». so I eye you more than all the others.<br />
ALESSIO INTERMINEI (VOICE):<br />
INF C18 124-126 / DANTE INF C18 124-126 / KLINE<br />
Ed elli allor, battendosi la zucca: And he then, beating his forehead: The flatteries<br />
Qua giù m'hanno sommerso le lusinghe Flatteries, of which my tongue never<br />
ond' io non ebbi mai la lingua stucca. wearied, have brought me down to this!<br />
DANTE MOVES AND IS ABOUT TO ACCOST SIMON MAGUS WHEN THE INTERMINEI VERSE COMES<br />
TOGETHER IN HIS HEAD. HE NODS OR POINTS BACK AND SPEAKS, CLOSING THE CANTO.<br />
(ALTERNATIVELY, HE ACTUALLY SAYS ‘O SIMON MAGUS’ BEFORE TURNING BACK, BUT THAT FURTHER<br />
SEPARATES ‘LUCCA’ AND ‘ZUCCA’.)<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C18 124-126 / DANTE INF C18 124-126 / KLINE<br />
Ed elli allor, battendosi la zucca: And he then, beating his forehead:<br />
Qua giù m'hanno sommerso le lusinghe The flatteries, of which my tongue never wearied,<br />
ond' io non ebbi mai la lingua stucca. have brought me down to this!<br />
INF C18 127-132 / KLINE<br />
At which my guide said to me: ‘Advance your head a little, so that your eyes can clearly see, over there, the face of<br />
that filthy and dishevelled piece, who scratches herself, with her soiled nails, now crouching down, now rising to her<br />
feet. It is Thais, the whore, who answered her lover’s message, in which he asked: “Do you really return me great<br />
thanks?” with “No, wondrous thanks.” And let our looking be sated with this.’<br />
CANTO 19<br />
SIMONISTS