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INF C32 25-30 / DANTE<br />
The Danube, in Austria, never formed so thick a veil for its winter course, nor the Don, far off under the frozen sky,<br />
as was here: if Mount Tambernic in the east, or Mount Pietrapana, had fallen on it, it would not have even creaked at<br />
the margin.<br />
INF C32 31-33 / DANTE<br />
E come a gracidar si sta la rana As frogs sit croaking with their muzzles<br />
col muso fuor de l'acqua, quando sogna above water, at the time when peasant<br />
di spigolar sovente la villana, women often dream of gleaning,<br />
INF C32 34-36 / DANTE<br />
livide, insin là dove appar vergogna so the sad shadows sat sit, in the ice.,<br />
eran l'ombre dolenti ne la ghiaccia, livid to where the blush of shame appears,<br />
mettendo i denti in nota di cicogna. chattering with their teeth, like storks.<br />
INF C32 37-39 / DANTE<br />
Ognuna in giù tenea volta la faccia; Each one held his face turned down:<br />
da bocca il freddo, e da li occhi il cor tristo the The cold is witnessed, amongst them,<br />
tra lor testimonianza si procaccia. by their mouths: and their sad hearts, by their eyes.<br />
INF C32 40-72 / KLINE<br />
When I had a looked around awhile, turning to my feet, I saw two, so compressed together, that the hair of their<br />
heads was intermingled. I said: ‘Tell me, you, who press your bodies together so: who are you?’ And they twisted<br />
their necks up, and when they had lifted their faces towards me, their eyes, which were only moist, inwardly, before,<br />
gushed at the lids, and the frost iced fast the tears, between them, and sealed them up again. No vice ever clamped<br />
wood to wood as firmly: so that they butted one another like two he-goats, overcome by such rage. And one, who<br />
had lost both ears to the cold, with his face still turned down, said: ‘Why are you staring at us, so fiercely? If you<br />
want to know who these two are, they are the degli Alberti, Allesandro and Napoleone: the valley where the<br />
Bisenzio runs down, was theirs and their father Alberto’s. They issued from one body, and you can search the<br />
whole Caïna, and will not find shades more worthy of being set in ice: not even Mordred, whose chest and shadow,<br />
were pierced, at one blow, by his father’s, King Arthur’s, lance: nor Focaccia: nor this one, who obstructs my face<br />
with his head, so that I cannot see further, who was named Sassol Mascheroni. If you are a Tuscan, now, you know<br />
truly what he was. And so that you do not put me to more speech, know that I am Camicion de’ Pazzi, and am<br />
waiting for Carlino, my kinsman, to outdo me.’ Afterwards I saw a thousand faces, made doglike by the cold, at<br />
which a trembling overcomes me, and always will, when I think of the frozen fords.<br />
DANTE AND VIRGIL BEGIN WALKING OFF. DANTE, VERSIFYING, (NEARLY?) TRIPS OVER<br />
BOCCA./.URANIA.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C32 31-33 / DANTE INF C32 31-33 / KLINE<br />
E come a gracidar si sta la rana As frogs sit croaking with their muzzles<br />
col muso fuor de l'acqua, quando sogna above water, at the time when peasant<br />
di spigolar sovente la villana, women often dream of gleaning,<br />
INF C32 34-36 / DANTE<br />
livide, insin là dove appar vergogna so the sad shadows sat, in the ice,<br />
eran l'ombre dolenti ne la ghiaccia, livid to where the blush of shame appears,<br />
mettendo i denti in nota di cicogna. chattering with their teeth, like storks.<br />
INF C32 37-39 / DANTE<br />
Ognuna in giù tenea volta la faccia; Each one held his face turned down:<br />
da bocca il freddo, e da li occhi il cor tristo the cold is witnessed, amongst them,<br />
tra lor testimonianza si procaccia. by their mouths: and their sad hearts, by their eyes.<br />
INF C32 73-78 / KLINE<br />
And, whether it was will, or fate or chance, I do not know: but walking, among the heads, I struck my foot violently<br />
against one face.<br />
BOCCA / URANIA:<br />
INF C32 79-81 / DANTE INF C32 79-81 / KLINE<br />
Piangendo mi sgridò: Perché mi peste? Weeping it cried out to me: Why do you<br />
se tu non vieni a crescer la vendetta trample on me? If you do not come to increase the<br />
di Montaperti, perché mi moleste?. revenge for Montaperti, why do you trouble me?