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VIRGIL: & DANTE:<br />
INF C20 118-120 / DANTE INF C20 118-120 / KLINE<br />
Vedi Guido Bonatti; vedi Asdente, See Guido Bonatti, see Asdente, the toothless one<br />
ch'avere inteso al cuoio e a lo spago who wishes now he had attended more to his<br />
ora vorrebbe, ma tardi si pente. shoemaker’s leather and cord, but repents too late.<br />
GUIDO BONATTI: PRIVATE ASTROLOGER TO GUIDO DA MONTEFELTRO. HE CAME FROM FORLÌ & WAS A TILER BY TRADE. HE<br />
WROTE LIBER INTRODUCTORIUS AD JUDICIA STELLORUM (C 1170) & WAS CREDITED WITH AIDING GUIDO’S VICTORY OVER THE<br />
FRENCH PAPAL FORCES AT FORLÌ IN 1282.<br />
ASDENTE: A SHOEMAKER OF PARMA. ASDENTE (‘THE TOOTHLESS’), WHOSE REAL NAME WAS BENVENUTO, PRACTISED AS A<br />
SOOTHSAYER. HE DIED C 1284.<br />
INF C20 121-123 / DANTE<br />
Vedi le triste che lasciaron l'ago, See the The miserable women who abandoned<br />
la spuola e 'l fuso, e fecersi 'ndivine; needle, shuttle and spindle, and became<br />
fecer malie con erbe e con imago. prophetesses: they made witchcraft, using herbs<br />
and images.<br />
VIRGIL:<br />
INF C20 124-126 / DANTE INF C20 124-126 / KLINE<br />
Ma vienne omai, ché già tiene 'l confine But come, now, for Cain with his bundle of thorns,<br />
d'amendue li emisperi e tocca l'onda that Man in the Moon, reaches the western confines<br />
sotto Sobilia Caino e le spine; of both hemispheres, and touches the waves south<br />
of Seville.,<br />
CAIN: THE MAN IN THE MOON IN POPULAR SUPERSTITION, WAS CAIN CARRYING A BUNDLE OF THORNS AS HE WENT TO<br />
SACRIFICE.<br />
TOUCHES THE WAVES: BY DEDUCTION, THE TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 6.45 ON SATURDAY MORNING.<br />
INF C20 127-129 / DANTE<br />
e già iernotte fu la luna tonda: and already Already, last night, the Moon was full:<br />
ben ten de' ricordar, ché non ti nocque you must remember it clearly, since she did<br />
alcuna volta per la selva fonda». not serve you badly in the deep wood.<br />
DANTE LOOKS UP AT THE ‘SKY’ AND CLOSES THE CANTO.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C20 127-129 / DANTE INF C20 127-129 / KLINE<br />
e già iernotte fu la luna tonda: and already, last night, the Moon was full:<br />
ben ten de' ricordar, ché non ti nocque you must remember it clearly, since she did<br />
alcuna volta per la selva fonda». not serve you badly in the deep wood.<br />
INF C20 130 / KLINE<br />
Sì mi parlava, e andavamo introcque. So he spoke to me, and meanwhile we moved on.<br />
CANTO 21<br />
INF C21 1-6 / KLINE<br />
So from bridge to bridge we went, with other conversation which my Commedía does not choose to recall, and we<br />
were at the summit arch when we stopped to see the next cleft of Malebolge, and more vain grieving, and I found it<br />
marvellously dark.<br />
THEY DESCEND THE → R → .<br />
♫INFERNAL: SOFT * * * * * * * * * *<br />
INF C20 130