215 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. CANTO 34
VEXILLA REGIS: ASCENT & DAMN! 216 VIRGIL: INF C34 1-3 / DANTE INF C34 1-3 / KLINE «Vexilla regis prodeunt inferni Vexilla Regis prodeunt inferni, the banners of the verso di noi; però dinanzi mira», King of Hell advance towards us: so look in front disse 'l maestro mio, «se tu 'l discerni». of you to see if you discern him,’ said my Master. ♫INFERNAL: A SINGLE LOUD NOTE * * * * * * * * * * INF C34 2 INF C34 4-27 / KLINE I seemed to see a tall structure, as a mill, that the wind turns, seems from a distance, when a dense mist breathes, or when night falls in our hemisphere, and I shrank back behind my guide, because of the wind, since there was no other shelter. I had already come, and with fear I put it into words, where the souls were completely enclosed, and shone through like straw in glass. Some are lying down, some stand upright, one on its head, another on the soles of its feet, another bent head to foot, like a bow. When we had gone on far enough, that my guide was able to show me Lucifer, the monster who was once so fair, he removed himself from me, and made me stop, saying: ‘Behold Dis, and behold the place where you must arm yourself with courage.’ Reader, do not ask how chilled and hoarse I became, then, since I do not write it, since all words would fail to tell it. I did not die, yet I was not alive. Think, yourself, now, if you have any grain of imagination, what I became, deprived of either state. INF C34 28-33 The emperor of the sorrowful kingdom stood, waist upwards, from the ice, and I am nearer to a giant in size than the giants are to one of his arms: think how great the whole is that corresponds to such a part. If he was once as fair, as he is now ugly, and lifted up his forehead against his Maker, well may all evil flow from him. O how great a wonder it seemed to me, when I saw three faces on his head! The one in front was fiery red: the other two were joined to it, above the centre of each shoulder, and linked at the top, and the right hand one seemed whitish-yellow: the left was black to look at, like those who come from where the Nile rises. Under each face sprang two vast wings, of a size fit for such a bird: I never saw ship’s sails as wide. They had no feathers, but were like a bat’s in form and texture, and he was flapping them, so that three winds blew out away from him, by which all Cocytus was frozen. He wept from six eyes, and tears and bloody spume gushed down three chins. He chewed a sinner between his teeth, with every mouth, like a grinder, so, in that way, he kept three of them in torment. DANTE’S LUCIFER IS A GROTESQUE, IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT ON THE STAGE. INF C34 68-81 / KLINE But night is ascending, [6 PM Sat] and now we must go, since we have seen it all.’ I clasped his neck, as he wished, and he seized the time and place, and when the wings were wide open, grasped Satan’s shaggy sides, and then from tuft to tuft, climbed down, between the matted hair and frozen crust. When we had come to where the thigh joint turns, just at the swelling of the haunch, my guide, with effort and difficulty, reversed his head to where his feet had been, and grabbed the hair like a climber, so that I thought we were dropping back to Hell. DANTE STARES AND STARTS FAINTING. VIRGIL HOLDS HIM UP AND STEPS FORWARD INTO THE DARKNESS. VIRGIL: or VIRGIL: INF C34 82-84 / DANTE INF C34 82-84 / KLINE Attienti ben, ché per cotali scale», Hold tight., said my guide, panting disse 'l maestro, ansando com' uom lasso, like a man exhausted, ‘since by these stairs, «conviensi dipartir da tanto male». we must depart from all this evil.’
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