L ' I N F E R N O

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quando n'apparve una montagna, bruna when a mountain appeared to us,
per la distanza, e parvemi alta tanto dim with distance, and it seemed to me
quanto veduta non avëa alcuna. the highest I had ever seen.
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Noi ci allegrammo, e tosto tornò in pianto; We rejoiced, but soon our joy was turned to grief,
ché de la nova terra un turbo nacque when a tempest rose from the new land,
e percosse del legno il primo canto. and struck the prow of our ship.
ULYSSES./.CALLIOPE LEANS THIS WAY AND THAT. DANTE AND VIRGIL MOVE AWAY IN
ALARM. THE SHIP IS BLOWN OUT OF SIGHT OF THE AUDIENCE. DANTE WATCHES IT AND
CLOSES THE CANTO.
DANTE:
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Tre volte il fé girar con tutte l'acque; Three times it whirled her round, with all the
ocean:
a la quarta levar la poppa in suso at the fourth, it made the stern rise,
e la prora ire in giù, com' altrui piacque, and the prow sink, as it pleased another,
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infin che 'l mar fu sovra noi richiuso». till the sea closed over us.
CANTO 27
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The flame was now erect and quiet, no longer speaking, and was going away from us, with the permission of the
sweet poet, when another, that came behind forced us to turn our eyes towards its summit, since a confused sound
escaped there. As the Sicilian bull, that first bellowed with the groans of Perillus, who had smoothed it with his file
(and that was right) bellowed with the sufferer’s voice, so that, although it was bronze, it seemed pierced with
agony, so here, the dismal words, having, at their source, no exit from the fire, were changed into its language. But
when they had found a path out through the tip, giving it the movement that the tongue had given in making them,
we heard it say: ‘O you, at whom I direct my voice, and who, but now, was speaking Lombard, saying: “Now go: no
more, I beg you”, let it not annoy you to stop and speak with me, though perhaps I have came a little late: you see it
does not annoy me, and I burn. If you are only now fallen into this blind world, from that sweet Latian land, from
which I bring all my guilt, tell me if Romagna has peace or war, for I was of the mountains there, between Urbino
and Monte Coronaro, the source from which the Tiber springs.’
ANOTHER FLAME ARRIVES FROM THE DIRECTION OF THE FIRST, ON THE HEAD OF ERATO.
VIRGIL
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Io era in giuso ancora attento e chino, I was still leaning downwards eagerly, when
quando il mio duca mi tentò di costa, my leader touched me on the side, saying:
dicendo: Parla tu; questi è latino. Speak, this is a Latian.
DANTE:
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E io, ch'avea già pronta la risposta, And I who had my answer ready,
sanza indugio a parlare incominciai: began to speak then without delay:
O anima che se' là giù nascosta, O spirit, hidden there below,
DANTE:
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O anima che se' là giù nascosta, O spirit, hidden there below,