195 DANTE: INF C30 1-3 / DANTE INF C30 1-3 / KLINE Nel tempo che Iunone era crucciata At the time when Juno was angry, as she had shown per Semelè contra 'l sangue tebano, more than once, with the Theban race, because of come mostrò una e altra fïata, Jupiter’s affair with Semele, she so maddened INF C30 4-6 / DANTE Atamante divenne tanto insano, King Athamas, that, seeing his wife, Ino, che veggendo la moglie con due figli go by, carrying her two sons andar carcata da ciascuna mano, in her arms, he cried: INF C30 7-9 / DANTE gridò: «Tendiam le reti, sì ch'io pigli “Spread the hunting nets, so that I can take la leonessa e ' leoncini al varco»; the lioness and her cubs, at the pass,” e poi distese i dispietati artigli, and then stretched out his pitiless talons, INF C30 10-12 / DANTE prendendo l'un ch'avea nome Learco, snatching the one, named Learchus, and, whirling e rotollo e percosselo ad un sasso; him round, dashed him against the rock: and Ino e quella s'annegò con l'altro carco. drowned herself, and her other burden, Melicertes. INF C30 13-15 / DANTE E quando la fortuna volse in basso And after fortune had brought down l'altezza de' Troian che tutto ardiva, the high Trojan pride, that dared all, so that sì che 'nsieme col regno il re fu casso, Priam the king, and his kingdom were destroyed, INF C30 16-18 / DANTE Ecuba trista, misera e cattiva, Queen Hecuba, a sad, wretched captive, poscia che vide Polissena morta, having witnessed the sacrifice of Polyxena, e del suo Polidoro in su la riva alone, on the sea-shore, OTHER ONE TOO POLYXENA: TROJAN PRINCESS, DAUGHTER OF PRIAM & HECUBA. ACCORDING TO OVID (METAMORPHOSES 13 448) SHE IS SLAUGHTERED AT ACHILLES’S TOMB AFTER THE FALL OF TROY, BUT ACCORDING TO LATER VERSIONS OF THE MYTHS HIS LOVE FOR HER BROUGHT ABOUT HIS DEATH, WHEN HE WAS KILLED BY PARIS IN A TEMPLE WHERE HE HAD GONE TO MARRY HER, AFTER BEING PROMISED HER HAND IF HE WOULD JOIN FORCES WITH THE TROJANS. INF C30 19-21 / DANTE del mar si fu la dolorosa accorta, when she recognised the body of her Polydorus, forsennata latrò sì come cane; barked like a dog, driven out of her senses, tanto il dolor le fé la mente torta. so greatly had her sorrow racked her mind. POLYDORUS: SON OF PRIAM & HECUBA, SENT BY PRIAM TO THE COURT OF POLYMESTOR OF THRACE & DONE TO DEATH BY POLYMESTOR, PRIAM’S SON-IN-LAW. INF C30 22-24 / DANTE Ma né di Tebe furie né troiane But neither Theban nor Trojan Furies si vider mäi in alcun tanto crude, were ever seen embodied so cruelly, non punger bestie, nonché membra umane, in stinging creatures, or even less in human limbs, INF C30 25-27 / DANTE quant' io vidi in due ombre smorte e nude, as I saw displayed in two shades, pallid and naked, che mordendo correvan di quel modo that ran, biting, as a hungry pig does, che 'l porco quando del porcil si schiude. when he is driven out of his sty. INF C30 28-59 / KLINE The one came to Capocchio, and fixed his tusks in his neck, so that dragging him along, it made the solid floor rasp his belly. And the Aretine, Griffolino, who was left, said to me, trembling: ‘That goblin is Gianni Schicci, and he goes, rabidly, mangling others like that.’ ‘Oh, be pleased to tell us who the other is, before it snatches itself away, and may it not plant its teeth in you.’ And he to me: ‘That is the ancient spirit of incestuous Myrrha, who loved her father, Cinyras, with more than lawful love. She came to him, and sinned, under cover of another’s name, just as the one who is vanishing there, undertook to disguise himself as Buoso Donati, so as to gain the mare, called the Lady of the Herd, by forging a will, and giving it legal form.’ When the furious pair, on whom I had kept my eye, were gone, I turned to look at the other spirits, born to evil. I saw one, who would have been shaped like a lute, if he had only had his groin cut short, at the place where a man is forked. The heavy dropsy, that swells the limbs, with its badly transformed humours, so that the face does not match the belly, made him hold his lips apart, as the fevered patient does who, through thirst, curls one lip towards the chin, and the other upwards.
196 WE DON’T KNOW WHAT DANTE SAW BECAUSE ADAMO OF BRESCIA ROLLS OUT OF THE DARKNESS TO THE BACK OF THE STAGE. SINON AND THE FALSE WIFE REMAIN INVISIBLE BEHIND HIM. ADAMO OF BRESCIA INF C30 58-60 / DANTE INF C30 58-60 / KLINE O voi che sanz' alcuna pena siete, He said to us: O you, who are exempt from e non so io perché, nel mondo gramo, punishment in this grim world diss' elli a noi, guardate e attendete (and why, I do not know), look and attend to ADAMO OF BRESCIA *---- ? - *---- ? AGE : 50?? PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC BRESCIA, ROMAGNA. DESCRIPTION WRAPPED UP AND LYING BARELY VISIBLE AT THE BACK OF THE STAGE. ADAMO OF BRESCIA INF C30 61-63 / DANTE INF C30 61-63 / KLINE a la miseria del maestro Adamo; the misery of Maestro Adamo. io ebbi, vivo, assai di quel ch'i' volli, I had enough of what I wished, when I was e ora, lasso!, un gocciol d'acqua bramo. alive, and now, alas, I crave a drop of water. INF C30 64-66 / DANTE Li ruscelletti che d'i verdi colli The little streams that fall, from the green hills del Casentin discendon giuso in Arno, of Casentino, down to the Arno, faccendo i lor canali freddi e molli, making cool, moist channels, INF C30 67-69 / DANTE sempre mi stanno innanzi, e non indarno, are constantly in my mind, and not in vain, since ché l'imagine lor vie più m'asciuga the image of them parches me, far more than che 'l male ond' io nel volto mi discarno. the disease, that wears the flesh from my face. DANTE NOTES WITH UNCONSCIOUS CRUELTY. DANTE: INF C30 63 / DANTE INF C30 63 / KLINE e ora, lasso!, un gocciol d'acqua bramo. alive, and now, alas, I crave a drop of water. INF C30 64-66 / DANTE Li ruscelletti che d'i verdi colli The little streams that fall, from the green hills del Casentin discendon giuso in Arno, of Casentino, down to the Arno, faccendo i lor canali freddi e molli, making cool, moist channels, ADAMO’S VOICE IS HOARSER NOW. ADAMO OF BRESCIA INF C30 70-72 / DANTE INF C30 70-72 / KLINE La rigida giustizia che mi fruga The rigid justice, that examines me, tragge cagion del loco ov' io peccai takes its opportunity from the place a metter più li miei sospiri in fuga. where I sinned, to give my sighs more rapid flight. INF C30 73-75 / DANTE Ivi è Romena, là dov' io falsai That is Romena, where I counterfeited the coin la lega suggellata del Batista; of Florence, stamped with John the Baptist’s image: per ch'io il corpo sù arso lasciai. for that, on earth, I left my body, burned.
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