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