L ' I N F E R N O

VIRGIL:
INF C6 13-15 / DANTE INF C6 13-15 / KLINE
Cerbero, fiera crudele e diversa, Cerberus, the fierce Fierce and strange monster,
con tre gole caninamente latra triple-throated, barks. dog-like
sovra la gente che quivi è sommersa. over the people submerged in it.
INF C6 16-18 / DANTE INF C6 16-18 / KLINE
Li occhi ha vermigli, la barba unta e atra, His eyes Eyes are crimson, his beard is foul and
black,
e 'l ventre largo, e unghiate le mani; his belly vast, and his limbs are clawed:
graffia li spirti ed iscoia ed isquatra. he snatches the spirits, flays, and quarters them.
DANTE:
INF C6 13-15 / DANTE INF C6 13-15 / KLINE
Cerbero, fiera crudele e diversa, Cerberus, the fierce and strange monster,
con tre gole caninamente latra triple-throated, barks dog-like
sovra la gente che quivi è sommersa. over the people submerged in it.
INF C6 16-18 / DANTE INF C6 16-18 / KLINE
Li occhi ha vermigli, la barba unta e atra, His eyes are crimson, his beard is foul and black,
e 'l ventre largo, e unghiate le mani; his belly vast, and his limbs are clawed:
graffia li spirti ed iscoia ed isquatra. he snatches the spirits, flays, and quarters them.
INF C6 19-21 / KLINE
The rain makes them howl like dogs: they protect one flank with the other: often writhing: miserable wretches.
VIRGIL AND DANTE JUMP BACK IN HASTE.
DANTE STOPS AT A SAFE DISTANCE FROM THE STAGE FRONT.
DANTE: or DANTE:
INF C6 22-24 / DANTE INF C6 22-24 / KLINE
Quando ci scorse Cerbero, il gran vermo, When Cerberus, the great worm, saw us,
le bocche aperse e mostrocci le sanne; he opened his jaws, and showed his fangs:
non avea membro che tenesse fermo. not a limb of his stayed still.
INF C6 25-39 / KLINE
My guide, stretching out his hands, grasped earth, and hurled it in fistfuls into his ravening mouth. Like a dog that
whines for food, and grows quiet when he eats it, only fighting and struggling to devour it, so did demon Cerberus’s
loathsome muzzles that bark, like thunder, at the spirits, so that they wish that they were deaf. We passed over the
shades, that the heavy rain subdues, and placed our feet on each empty space that seems a body. They were all lying
on the ground but one, who sat up straight away when he saw us cross in front of him:
CIACCO
A MALE SPIRIT, WHO HAD BEEN UNSEEN IN THE DARK BEHIND THEM, CALLS OUT.
CIACCO: or CIACCO:
INF C6 40-42 / DANTE INF C6 40-42 / KLINE
O tu che se' per questo 'nferno tratto, He said to me: O you, who are led through this
mi disse, riconoscimi, se sai: Inferno, recognise me if you can:
tu fosti, prima ch'io disfatto, fatto. you were made before I was unmade.
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