L ' I N F E R N O

INF C33 97-99 / DANTE
ché le lagrime prime fanno groppo, since the first tears form a knot,
e sì come visiere di cristallo, and like a crystal visor,
rïempion sotto 'l ciglio tutto il coppo. fill the cavities below their eyebrows.
INF C33 100-110 / KLINE
And though all feeling had left my face, through the cold, as though from a callus, it seemed to me now as if I felt a
breeze, at which I said: ‘Master, what causes this? Is the heat not all quenched here below?’ At which he said to me:
‘Soon you will be where your own eyes, will answer that, seeing the source that generates the air.’
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FRIAR ALBERIGO (VOICE):
INF C33 109-111 / DANTE INF C33 109-111 / KLINE
E un de' tristi de la fredda crosta And one of the sad shadows, in the icy crust,
gridò a noi: O anime crudeli cried out to us: O spirits, so cruel that the last place
tanto che data v'è l'ultima posta, of all is reserved for you,
FRIAR ALBERIGO MANFREDI *---- ? - 1300 + AGE : *-- ?
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC
FAENZA.
DESCRIPTION
VOICE ONLY.
ALBERIGO MANFREDI OF FAENZA, ONE OF THE FRATI GAUDENTI, THE JOVIAL FRIARS, AVENGED A BLOW FROM HIS YOUNGER
BROTHER MANFRED, IN 1284, BY INVITING HIM, AND HIS SON, TO A BANQUET IN 1285, AND AT A GIVEN SIGNAL ‘BRING THE
FRUITS’ MANFRED AND HIS SON WERE MURDERED. LE MALE FRUTTA (THE EVIL FRUIT) DI FRATE ALBERIGO BECAME A
PROVERB. HE WAS STILL ALIVE IN 1300, THE DATE OF THE VISION.
FRIAR ALBERIGO (VOICE):
INF C33 112-114 / DANTE INF C33 112-114 / KLINE
levatemi dal viso i duri veli, remove the solid veils from my face, that I
sì ch'ïo sfoghi 'l duol che 'l cor m'impregna, might vent the grief a little that chokes my heart,
un poco, pria che 'l pianto si raggeli». before the tears freezes again.
INF C33 115-126 / KLINE
At which I said to him: If you would have my help, tell me who you are: and if I do not disburden you, may I have
to journey to the depths of the ice.’ He replied to that: ‘I am Friar Alberigo, I am he of the fruits of the evil garden,
who here receive dates made of ice, to match my figs.’ I said to him: ‘O, are you dead already?’ And he to me:
‘How my body stands in the world above, I do not know, such is the power of this Ptolomaea, that the soul often
falls down here, before Atropos cuts the thread.
DANTE LOOKS INTO THE DARKNESS AND ADDRESSES VIRGIL AND./.OR THE AUDIENCE.
DANTE:
Alberigo Manfredi…Jovial Friar…He invited his
brother and nephew to a banquet and had them
murdered at the signal “Bring the fruits”.
FRIAR ALBERIGO (VOICE):
INF C33 127-129 / DANTE INF C33 127-129 / KLINE
E perché tu più volentier mi rade And so that you may more willingly clear
le 'nvetrïate lagrime dal volto, the frozen tears from my face,
sappie che, tosto che l'anima trade know Know that when the soul betrays,
INF C33 130-132 / DANTE
come fec' ïo, il corpo suo l'è tolto as mine did, her body is taken
da un demonio, che poscia il governa from her by a demon, there and then,
mentre che 'l tempo suo tutto sia vòlto. who rules it after that, till its time is complete.
INF C33 133-135 / DANTE
Ella ruina in sì fatta cisterna; She falls, plunging down to this well: and perhaps
e forse pare ancor lo corpo suso the body of this other shade, that winters here,
de l'ombra che di qua dietro mi verna. behind me, is still visible in the world above.