L ' I N F E R N O

ULYSSES FLAME VOICE & CALLIOPE:
INF C26 91-93 / DANTE INF C26 91-93 / KLINE
mi diparti' da Circe, che sottrasse When I left Circe, who held me
me più d'un anno là presso a Gaeta, for more than a year, near to Gaeta,
prima che sì Enëa la nomasse, before Aeneas named it,
ULYSSES MYTHICAL AGE : *-- ?
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC
GREECE.
DESCRIPTION
VOICE MEDIATED BY FLAME.
AGAIN, THE UNSEEN DIDO RESPONDS TO AENEAS’S NAME.
DIDO (VOICE):
AENEID 4 141-142 / VIRGIL AENEID 4 141-142 / KLINE
ipse ante alios pulcherrimus omnis infert
se socium Aeneas Aeneas himself, the most handsome of them all
DIDO (VOICE): or DIDO (VOICE):
AENEID 4 384 / VIRGIL AENEID 4 384 / KLINE
sequar atris ignibus absens Absent, I’ll follow you with dark fires,
AENEID 11 232 / VIRGIL AENEID 11 232 / VIRGIL
fatalem Aenean fateful Aeneas
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ULYSSES FLAME VOICE & CALLIOPE:
INF C26 94-96 / DANTE INF C26 94-6 / KLINE
né dolcezza di figlio, né la pieta not even my fondness for my son, Telemachus, my
del vecchio padre, né 'l debito amore reverence for my aged father, Laërtes, nor the debt
lo qual dovea Penelopè far lieta, of love that should have made Penelope happy,
INF C26 97-99 / DANTE
vincer potero dentro a me l'ardore could restrain in me the desire I had,
ch'i' ebbi a divenir del mondo esperto to gain experience of the world,
e de li vizi umani e del valore; and of human vice and worth.
INF C26 100-102 / DANTE
ma misi me per l'alto mare aperto I set out on the wide, deep ocean,
sol con un legno e con quella compagna with only one ship, and that little company,
picciola da la qual non fui diserto. that had not abandoned me.
A LAST VOYAGE, OF DANTE’S INVENTION, TO THE MOUNT OF PURGATORY, IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, VIA GIBRALTAR
& THE ATLANTIC, WHERE HE IS WRECKED.
INF C26 103-105 / DANTE
L'un lito e l'altro vidi infin la Spagna, I saw both shores, as far as Spain,
fin nel Morrocco, e l'isola d'i Sardi, as far as Morocco, and the isle of Sardinia,
e l'altre che quel mare intorno bagna. and the other islands that sea washes.
DANTE notes:
INF C26 103-104 / DANTE INF C26 103-104 / KLINE
L'un lito e l'altro vidi infin la Spagna, I saw both shores, as far as Spain,
fin nel Morrocco, e l'isola d'i Sardi, as far as Morocco, and the isle of Sardinia,
ULYSSES FLAME VOICE & CALLIOPE:
INF C26 106-108 / DANTE INF C26 106-108 / KLINE
Io e ' compagni eravam vecchi e tardi I, and my companions, were old, and slow,
quando venimmo a quella foce stretta when we came to that narrow strait,
dov' Ercule segnò li suoi riguardi where Hercules set up his pillars,
PILLARS OF HERCULES: AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN, IN ANCIENT TIMES, THE LIMITS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
(NAMELY MOUNT ABYLA IN NORTH AFRICA, NEAR CEUTA & MOUNT CALPE, GIBRALTAR, WELL SOUTH-EAST OF SEVILLE).