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DANTE ADDRESSES ANOTHER SOUL IN THE DARKNESS<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C19 1-3 / DANTE INF C19 1-3 / KLINE<br />
O Simon mago, o miseri seguaci O Simon Magus. O you, his rapacious,<br />
che le cose di Dio, che di bontate wretched followers, who prostitute,<br />
deon essere spose, e voi rapaci for gold and silver,<br />
SIMON MAGUS: SIMON OF SAMARIA (SIMON THE SORCERER), REBUKED (ACTS VIII 9-24) BY ST PETER FOR THINKING THAT<br />
‘THE GIFT OF GOD MAY BE PURCHASED WITH MONEY’. HENCE: ‘SIMONISTS’ (‘SIMONIACS’) WHO TRADE IN HOLY OFFICES.<br />
141<br />
INF C19 4-6 / DANTE<br />
per oro e per argento avolterate, the things of God that should be wedded to virtue!<br />
or convien che per voi suoni la tromba, Now the trumpets must sound for you,<br />
però che ne la terza bolgia state. since you are in the third chasm.<br />
INF C19 7-9 / KLINE<br />
Already we had climbed to the next arch, onto that part of the causeway that hangs right over the centre of the ditch.<br />
DANTE LOOKS AT SOMETHING INVISIBLE TO THE AUDIENCE, THEN DESCRIBES IT.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C19 10-12 / DANTE INF C19 10-12 / KLINE<br />
O somma sapïenza, quanta è l'arte O somma sapïenza…O Supreme Wisdom…<br />
che mostri in cielo, in terra e nel mal mondo, how great the art is, that you display, in the<br />
heavens,<br />
e quanto giusto tua virtù comparte! on earth, and in the underworld, and how justly<br />
your virtue acts.<br />
INF C19 13-15 / DANTE<br />
Io vidi per le coste e per lo fondo On the sides and floor of the fosse,<br />
piena la pietra livida di fóri, I saw the livid stone is full of holes,<br />
d'un largo tutti e ciascun era tondo. all of one width, and each one rounded.<br />
INF C19 16-18 / DANTE<br />
Non mi parean men ampi né maggiori They seemed seem no narrower or larger,<br />
che que' che son nel mio bel San Giovanni, than those in my beautiful Baptistery of St John,<br />
fatti per loco d'i battezzatori; made as places to protect those baptising,<br />
HE BROODS, AND DECIDES TO BRING UP SOMETHING WHICH RANKLES.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C19 19-21 / DANTE INF C19 19-21 / KLINE<br />
l'un de li quali, ancor non è molt' anni, one of which I broke, not many years ago,<br />
rupp' io per un che dentro v'annegava: to aid a child inside: and let this be a sign<br />
e questo sia suggel ch'ogn' omo sganni. of the truth to end all speculation.<br />
I BROKE: DANTE EXPLAINS HERE, TO COUNTER CHARGES, PRESUMABLY OF SACRILEGE MADE AGAINST HIM.<br />
INF C19 22-24 / DANTE<br />
Fuor de la bocca a ciascun soperchiava From the mouth of each hole, a sinner’s feet<br />
d'un peccator li piedi e de le gambe and legs emerged emerge, up to the calf,<br />
infino al grosso, e l'altro dentro stava. and the rest remained inside.<br />
INF C19 25-27 / DANTE<br />
Le piante erano a tutti accese intrambe; The soles were are all on fire: so that the joints<br />
per che sì forte guizzavan le giunte, quivered quiver so strongly, that they would have<br />
che spezzate averien ritorte e strambe. snapped snap grass ropes and willow branches.