L ' I N F E R N O

DANTE SPEAKS TO BOCCA./.URANIA.
DANTE:
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«Omai», diss' io, «non vo' che più favelle, I said: Now, accursed traitor, I do not want
malvagio traditor; ch'a la tua onta you to speak: since I will carry
io porterò di te vere novelle». true news of you, to your shame.
BOCCA./.URANIA REPLIES WITH SISTERLY BITCHINESS.
BOCCA / URANIA:
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«Va via», rispuose, «e ciò che tu vuoi conta; He answered: Go, and say what you please, but,
ma non tacer, se tu di qua entro eschi, if you get out from here, do not be silent about
di quel ch'ebbe or così la lingua pronta. him, who had his tongue so ready just now.
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El piange qui l'argento de' Franceschi: Here he regrets taking French silver. You can say,
"Io vidi", potrai dir, "quel da Duera “I saw Buoso de Duera, there,
là dove i peccatori stanno freschi". where the sinners stand caught in the ice.”
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Se fossi domandato "Altri chi v'era?", If you are asked who else was there,
tu hai dallato quel di Beccheria you have Tesauro de’ Beccheria,
di cui segò Fiorenza la gorgiera. whose throat was slit by Florence.
TESAURO DE’ BECCARIA, TESAURO DE’ BECCHERIA OF PAVIA, ABBOT OF VALLOMBROSA & LEGATE OF POPE ALEXANDER
IV IN FLORENCE, PLOTTED AGAINST THE GUELPHS, AFTER THE GHIBELLINES HAD BEEN EXPELLED IN 1258 & WAS EXECUTED.
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Gianni de' Soldanier credo che sia Gianni de’ Soldanier is further on, with Ganelon,
più là con Ganellone e Tebaldello, and Tribaldello, who unbarred the gate
ch'aprì Faenza quando si dormia». of Faenza while it slept.
GIANNI DE’ SOLDANIER: A GHIBELLINE WHO BECAME LEADER OF THE GUELPH COMMONS OF FLORENCE WHEN THEY
REBELLED AGAINST GUIDO NOVELLO & THE GHIBELLINE NOBLES AFTER MANFRED’S DEFEAT AT BENEVENTO (1265).
GANELON (GANELLON): DECEIVED CHARLEMAGNE WHEN ROLAND (ORLANDO) SOUNDED HORN AT THE BATTLE OF
RONCESVALLES
TRIBALDELLO: TEBALDELLO; ONE OF THE ZAMBRASI OF FAENZA WHO HAD A SPITE AGAINST THE GHIBELLINE LAMBERTAZZI,
A BOLOGNESE FAMILY, OPENED THE GATE TO THEIR ENEMIES, THE GEREMEI, A BOLOGNESE GUELPH FAMILY, AFTER THE
LAMBERTAZZI HAD TAKEN REFUGE IN FAENZA IN 1280.
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We had already left him, when I saw I saw two spirits frozen in a hole, so close together that the one head capped
the other, and the uppermost set his teeth into the other, as bread is chewed, out of hunger, there where the back of
the head joins the nape. Tydeus gnawed the head of Menalippus, no differently, out of rage, than this one the skull
and other parts.
THE LIGHT ABOVE THEM SWITCHES OFF ABRUPTLY AND ANOTHER SHINES ON COUNT
UGOLINO, IMPERSONATED BY MELPOMENE, WHO SITS, LEANING FORWARD. HE./.SHE
HOLDS HER BOOK CLOSE TO HER FACE, ITS FRONT COVER SHOWING THE TRAGIC MASK.
THE MASK REPRESENTS THE SKULL OF RUGGIERI DEGLI UBALDINI WHICH UGOLINO
GNAWS IN L’INFERNO THE POEM.