L ' I N F E R N O

♫LAMP: EERIE? * * * * * * * * * *
INF C26 40
A LIT LAMP MOVES AT THE OTHER END OF THE STAGE. IT IS A TWO-PEAKED FLAME IN A BOWL OF OIL
(WITH A DOUBLE WICK?), AS FIRST SEEN IN [INF C4 76-78]. IN THE DARKNESS, THE BOWL LARGELY
OBSCURES THE FACE OF CALLIOPE WHO IS CARRYING IT ON HER HEAD.
VIRGIL:
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E 'l duca che mi vide tanto atteso, And the guide, who saw me so intent, said:
disse: Dentro dai fuochi son li spirti; The spirits are inside those fires:
catun si fascia di quel ch'elli è inceso. each veils himself in that which burns him.
DANTE:
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«Maestro mio», rispuos' io, «per udirti I replied: Master, I feel more assured from
son io più certo; ma già m'era avviso hearing you, but had already seen that it was so,
che così fosse, e già voleva dirti: and already wished to say to you,
INF C26 52-54 / DANTE
chi è 'n quel foco che vien sì diviso who is in that fire, that moves, divided at the
summit,
di sopra, che par surger de la pira as if it rose from the pyre where Eteocles
dov' Eteòcle col fratel fu miso? was cremated with his brother, Polynices?’
VIRGIL PEERS AT THE FLAME.
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VIRGIL:
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Rispuose a me: «Là dentro si martira He answered me: In there, Ulysses and Diomedes
Ulisse e Dïomede, e così insieme are tormented, and so they go,
a la vendetta vanno come a l'ira; together in punishment, as formerly in war:
ULYSSES: STOLE THE PALLADIUM, A WOODEN STATUE OF PALLAS ATHENE, THE SAFETY OF WHICH GUARANTEED THE SAFETY
OF TROY & INVENTED THE TROJAN HORSE, BY WHICH THE GREEKS ENTERED TROY.
DIOMEDE(S): GREEK HERO, SON OF TYDEUS, KING OF ARGOS & COMPANION OF ULYSSES AT TROY.
INF C26 58-60 / DANTE
e dentro da la lor fiamma si geme and, in their fire, they groan at the ambush
l'agguato del caval che fé la porta of the Trojan horse, that made a doorway, by which
onde uscì de' Romani il gentil seme. Aeneas, the noble seed of the Romans issued out.
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In there they lament the trick, by which Deidamia in death, still weeps for Achilles: and there, for the Palladium,
they endure punishment.’
DIDO, LAST HEARD FROM IN CANTO 5, QUOTES IRONICALLY FROM THE AENEID.
DIDO (VOICE):
AENEID various lines / VIRGIL / KLINE
good Aeneas
brave Aeneas
great Aeneas
magnus
magnanimus