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FALSIFIERS, LIARS<br />
VOICES COME OUT OF THE DARKNESS AS DANTE SPEAKS.<br />
GRIFFOLINO (VOICE):<br />
INF C29 109-111 / DANTE INF C29 109-111 / KLINE<br />
Io fui d'Arezzo, e Albero da Siena, The one replied: I was Griffolino of Arezzo,<br />
rispuose l’un mi fé mettere al foco; and Albero of Siena had me burned:<br />
ma quel per ch'io mori' qui non mi mena. but what I died for did not send me here.<br />
GRIFFOLINO *---- ? - *---- ? AGE : *-- ?<br />
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC<br />
AREZZO.<br />
DESCRIPTION<br />
VOICE ONLY.<br />
GRIFFOLINO (VOICE):<br />
INF C29 112-114 / DANTE INF C29 112-114 / KLINE<br />
Vero è ch'i' dissi lui, parlando a gioco: It is true I said to him, jesting,<br />
``I' mi saprei levar per l'aere a volo"; “I could lift myself into the air in flight.,”<br />
e quei, ch'avea vaghezza e senno poco, and he He who had great desire and little brain,<br />
193<br />
INF C29 115-117 / DANTE<br />
volle ch'i' li mostrassi l'arte; e solo wished me to show him that art: and only because<br />
perch' io nol feci Dedalo, mi fece I could not make him Daedalus, he caused me<br />
ardere a tal che l'avea per figliuolo. to be burned., by one who looked on him as a son.<br />
INF C29 118-120 / KLINE<br />
But to the last chasm of the ten, Minos, who cannot err, condemned me, for the alchemy I practised in the world.’<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C29 121-123 / DANTE INF C29 121-123 / KLINE<br />
E io dissi al poeta: «Or fu già mai And I said to the poet: Now was there<br />
gente sì vana come la sanese? ever a people as vain as the Sienese?<br />
Certo non la francesca sì d'assai!». Certainly not the French, by far.<br />
VIRGIL:<br />
INF C29 122 / DANTE INF C29 122 / KLINE<br />
gente sì vana come la sanese? ever a people as vain as the Sienese?<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C29 123 / DANTE INF C29 123 / KLINE<br />
Certo non la francesca sì d'assai! Certainly not the French, by far.<br />
THE UNSEEN CAPOCCHIO IS IMPERSONATED BY A MUSE.<br />
CAPOCCHIO / EUTERPE (VOICE):<br />
INF C29 124-126 / DANTE INF C29 124-126 / KLINE<br />
Onde l’altro lebbroso, che m’intese, At which the other leper, hearing me,<br />
rispuose al detto mio: Tra'mene Stricca replied to my words: What of Stricca,<br />
che seppe far le temperate spese, who contrived to spend so little:
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