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