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NIMROD<br />
DANTE SUDDENLY LOOKS INTO THE DARK BACKSTAGE, PLACING HIS HAND ON VIRGIL’S<br />
ARM.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C31 10-12 / DANTE<br />
Quiv' era men che notte e men che giorno,<br />
INF C31 10-12 / KLINE<br />
Here was less darkness than night and less light<br />
sì che 'l viso m'andava innanzi poco; than day, so that my vision showed only a little<br />
ma io senti' sonare un alto corno, in front: but I heard a high-pitched horn sound,<br />
HE ADDRESSES THE AUDIENCE.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C31 12 / DANTE INF C31 12 / KLINE<br />
ma io senti' sonare un alto corno, little in front: but I heard a high-pitched horn<br />
sound,<br />
200<br />
INF C31 13-15 / KLINE<br />
so loudly, that it would have made thunder seem quiet: it directed my eyes, that followed its passage back, straight<br />
to a single point.<br />
VIRGIL:<br />
INF C31 16-18 / DANTE INF C31 16-18 / KLINE<br />
Dopo la dolorosa rotta, quando Roland did not sound his horn so fiercely,<br />
Carlo Magno perdé la santa gesta, after the sad rout, when Charlemagne<br />
non sonò sì terribilmente Orlando! had lost the holy war, at Roncesvalles.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C31 16-18 / DANTE INF C31 16-18 / KLINE<br />
Dopo la dolorosa rotta, quando Roland did not sound his horn so fiercely,<br />
Carlo Magno perdé la santa gesta, after the sad rout, when Charlemagne<br />
non sonò sì terribilmente Orlando. had lost the holy war, at Roncesvalles.<br />
DANTE PEERS AND POINTS INTO THE BLACK DISTANCE OF BACKSTAGE.<br />
DANTE: or DANTE:<br />
INF C31 19-21 / DANTE INF C31 19-21 / KLINE<br />
Poco portäi in là volta la testa, I had kept my head turned for a while in that<br />
che me parve veder molte alte torri; direction, when I seemed to make out many high<br />
ond' io: Maestro, dì, che terra è questa? towers, at which I said: Master, tell me what city<br />
this is?<br />
VIRGIL:<br />
INF C31 22-24 / DANTE INF C31 22-24 / KLINE<br />
Ed elli a me: «Però che tu trascorri And he to me: Because your eyes traverse<br />
per le tenebre troppo da la lungi, the darkness from too far away,<br />
avvien che poi nel maginare abborri. it follows that you imagine wrongly.<br />
INF C31 25-27 / DANTE<br />
Tu vedrai ben, se tu là ti congiungi, You will see, quite plainly, when you reach there,<br />
quanto 'l senso s'inganna di lontano; how much the sense is deceived by distance,<br />
però alquanto più te stesso pungi». so press on more strongly.
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