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INF C33 136-147 / KLINE
You must know it, if you have only now come down here: it is Ser Branca d’Oria, and many years have passed since
he was imprisoned here.’ I said to him: ‘I believe you are lying to me: Branca d’Oria is not dead, and eats and
drinks, and sleeps, and puts on his clothes.’ He said: ‘Michel Zanche had not yet arrived, in the ditch of the
Malebranche above, there where the tenacious pitch boils, when this man left a devil in his place in his own body,
and one in the body of his kinsman who did the treachery with him.
INF C33 148 / DANTE INF C33 148-149 / KLINE
Ma distendi oggimai in qua la mano; But reach your hand here: open my eyes.’
aprimi li occhi». E io non gliel' apersi; And I did not open them for him:
DANTE FOLDS HIS ARMS AND WALKS AWAY WITH VIRGIL. HE CLOSES THE CANTO,
WRITING.
DANTE:
INF C33 148-150 / DANTE INF C33 148-150 / KLINE
Ma distendi oggimai in qua la mano; But reach your hand here: open my eyes.’
aprimi li occhi». E io non gliel' apersi; And I did not open them for him:
e cortesia fu lui esser villano. and it It was a courtesy to be rude to him.
DANTE:
INF C33 148-150 / DANTE INF C33 148-150 / KLINE
Ma distendi oggimai in qua la mano; But reach your hand here: open my eyes.’
aprimi li occhi». E io non gliel' apersi; And I did not open them for him:
e cortesia fu lui esser villano. and it was a courtesy to be rude to him.
INF C33 151-153 / DANTE
Ahi Genovesi, uomini diversi Ah, Genoese, men divorced from all morality,
d'ogne costume e pien d'ogne magagna, and filled with every corruption,
perché non siete voi del mondo spersi? why are you not dispersed from off the earth?
INF C33 154-157 / KLINE
I found the worst spirit of Romagna was one of you, who for his actions even now bathes, as a soul, in Cocytus, and
still seems alive on earth, in his own body.
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