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DANTE: & VIRGIL:
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e vidi il buono accoglitor del quale, and I saw the good collector of the qualities of
plants,
Dïascoride dico; e vidi Orfeo, I mean Dioscorides; and I saw Orpheus,
Tulïo e Lino e Seneca morale; Cicero, Linus, and Seneca the moralist;
DIOSCORIDES: GREEK PHYSICIAN, AUTHOR OF A WORK ON MATERIA MEDICA PARTICULARLY BOTANY; LIVED ABOUT 50 AD.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, 106-43 BC, ROMAN ORATOR & STATESMAN, BORN AT ARPINUM OF A WEALTHY FAMILY.
ELECTED CONSUL IN 63 BC & SUPPORTED POMPEY. HIS WRITINGS WERE INFLUENTIAL ON MEDIEVAL THINKING.
LINUS: MYTHOLOGICAL POET, THE BROTHER OF ORPHEUS. COMPOSED POEMS HONOURING DIONYSUS & A CREATION EPIC. HE
IS SAID TO HAVE INVENTED MELODY & RHYTHM. THE LAMENT FOR HIM WAS WIDESPREAD & IS THE THEME OF THE EGYPTIAN
SONG OF MANEROS.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, ROMAN PHILOSOPHER, MORALIST & SENATOR, D. 65 AD. A MEMBER OF ZENO’S STOIC SCHOOL &
TUTOR TO THE EMPEROR NERO WHO DROVE HIM TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
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Euclide geomètra e Tolomeo, Euclid the geometer, and Ptolemaeus;
Ipocràte, Avicenna e Galïeno, Hippocrates, Avicenna, and Galen;
Averoìs, che 'l gran comento feo. and Averrhoës, who wrote the vast commentary.
CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS, PTOLEMY, FL 127-51 AD, CODIFIED ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE IN HIS WORK THE ALMAGEST. HE
WAS THE AUTHORITY THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE AGES.
AVICENNA: ARAB PHYSICIAN & COMMENTATOR ON ARISTOTLE 979-1037 AD. HE CODIFIED GALEN WITH SMATTERINGS OF
HIPPOCRATES.
GALEN: ROMAN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICIAN & THE MAIN AUTHORITY ON MEDICINE & PHYSIOLOGY THROUGHOUT THE
MIDDLE AGES. HE LIVED C 130-200 AD.
AVERRHOËS: IBN RUSHD, 1128-1198 AD, ARABIAN PHYSICIAN & COMMENTATOR ON ARISTOTLE. HE ESPOUSED A SCEPTICAL
PHILOSOPHY & MADE ARISTOTLE’S PHILOSOPHY SUPREME IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
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Io non posso ritrar di tutti a pieno, I cannot speak of them all in full,
però che sì mi caccia il lungo tema, because the great theme drives me on, so that
che molte volte al fatto il dir vien meno. the word falls, many times, short of the fact.
DANTE CLOSES THE CANTO AS VIRGIL AND HE WALK TO THE TOP OF THE → R → AND LOOK DOWN.
CANTO 5
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La sesta compagnia in due si scema: The six companions reduce to two:
per altra via mi mena il savio duca, the wise guide leads me, by another path,
fuor de la queta, ne l'aura che trema. out of the quiet, into the trembling air,
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E vegno in parte ove non è che luca. and I come to a region, where nothing shines.
♫WIND / PERSONS HOWLING: SOFT * * * * * * * * * *
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So I descended from the first circle to the second, that encloses a smaller space, and so much more pain it provokes
howling.
DANTE:
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Stavvi Minòs orribilmente, e ringhia: There Minos stands, grinning horribly, examines
essamina le colpe ne l'intrata; the crimes on entrance, judges, and sends
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