L ' I N F E R N O

?
?
?
Maria corse con fretta a la montagna;
Mary ran with haste to the hill country
SLOTHFUL:
e Cesare, per soggiogare Ilerda, / punse Marsilia e poi corse in
Ispagna.
Caesar lanced Marseilles, and then raced to Spain, to subdue
Lerida in Catalonia
SLOTHFUL/SLOTHFUL:
Ratto, ratto, che ’l tempo non si perda / per poco amor, gridavan
li altri appresso, / che studio di ben far grazia rinverda.
Hurry! Hurry! Do not let time be wasted, through lack of love, so
that labouring to do well may renew grace.
SLOTHFUL 9:
Prima fue / morta la gente a cui il mar s’aperse, / che vedesse
Iordan le rede sue.
The people for whom the Red Sea opened, were dead before
Jordan saw their heirs.
-
-
-
PUR C18 101
PUR C18 103
PUR C18 133
-
-
-
?
SLOTHFUL 10 / MELPOMENE:
E quella che l’affanno non sofferse / fino a la fine col figlio
d’Anchise, / sé stessa a vita sanza gloria offerse.
Those who did not endure the labour with Aeneas, Anchises son,
until the end, gave themselves to an inglorious fate…
ANGEL OF ZEAL:
Beati qui lugent quoniam ipsi consolabuntur sung?
Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
-
-
PUR C18 136
PUR C19 45
-
-
V RED ANGEL:
Why do you journey considering so deeply, you solitary three? If
it please you to climb, here you must turn: they go from here, who
wish to journey towards peace.
V SPIRIT:
Virum non cognosco.
I know not a man
-
-
PUR C24 133
PUR C25 128
-
-
V SPIRITS/SPIRITS:
Al bosco / si tenne Diana, ed Elice caccionne / che di Venere
avea sentito il tosco.
Diana kept to the woods and chased Callisto away who had know
the taint of Venus.
V SPIRITS/SPIRITS:
Soddoma e Gomorra
Sodom & Gomorrah
-
-
PUR C25 130
PUR C26 40
-
V SPIRITS/SPIRITS:
Ne la vacca entra Pasife, / perché ’l torello a sua lussuria corra.
Pasiphaë enters the wooden cow, so that the young bull may run
to meet her lust.
? ANGEL OF CHASTITY:
You may go no further, O sacred spirits, if the fire has not first
bitten you: enter it, and do not be deaf to the singing beyond.
-
-
PUR C26 40
PUR C27 10
-
-
SAINTS/SAINTS: Manibus o date lilia plenis - PUR 30 20
4 NYMPHS
Here we are nymphs, and in heaven we are stars: before Beatrice
descended to your world we were ordained to be her helpers.
We will take you to her eyes.
FAITH HOPE LOVE:
Turn Beatrice, turn your sacred eyes to your faithful one, he who
has trodden so many steps to see you.
By your grace,grace us by unveiling your face to him, so that he
may see the second beauty that you conceal.
BLESSED SOULS:
Ecco chi crescerà li nostri amori.
Behold someone who will increase our love.
-
-
PUR C31 106
PUR C31 133
PAR C5 103
V MODEST VOICE:
Our Love will cast the rays…see elsewhere
V SOULS/SOULS:
Amen! (chorus)
-
-
-
-
PAR C14 37
PAR C14 62
28