L ' I N F E R N O

PHLEGYAS MYTHICAL AGE : *?
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC
GREECE.
DESCRIPTION
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PHLEGYAS AVENGED HIS DAUGHTER CORONIS, RAPED BY APOLLO, BY BURNING DOWN THE GOD’S TEMPLE AT DELPHI FOR
WHICH HE WAS CONDEMNED TO TARTARUS.
PHLEGYAS: & PHLEGYAS:
INF C8 18 / DANTE INF C8 18 / KLINE
che gridava: Or se' giunta, anima fella! who cried: Are you here, now, fierce spirit?
AENEID 1 620 / VIRGIL or AENEID 1 620 / KLINE
discite iustitiam moniti et non temnere
diuos Learn justice: be warned, and don’t despise the
gods.
VIRGIL IS MORE THAN A BIT IRRITATED AT HAVING HIS OWN WORDS QUOTED AT HIM.
VIRGIL:
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«Flegïàs, Flegïàs, tu gridi a vòto», My Master said: Phlegyas, Phlegyas,
disse lo mio segnore, «a questa volta: this time you cry in vain: you shall not
più non ci avrai che sol passando il loto». keep us longer than it takes us to pass the marsh.
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Phlegyas in his growing anger was like someone who listens to some great wrong done him, and then fills with
resentment. My guide climbed down into the boat and then made me board after him, and it only sank in the water
when I was in. As soon as my guide and I were in the craft, its prow went forward, ploughing deeper through the
water than it does carrying others.
DANTE WRITES AND REPEATS VIRGIL’S CRY, LICENSED TO DO SO FOR RECORDING PURPOSES.
DANTE:
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«Flegïàs, Flegïàs!, tu gridi a vòto», My Master said: Phlegyas, Phlegyas,
VIRGIL STEPS ON BOARD AND HELPS DANTE DO THE SAME.
♫INFERNAL: BOAT TRIP? * * * * * * * * * *
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THE POETS REMAIN STANDING DURING THE ‘TRIP’. THE ‘BOAT’ MAY ONLY APPEAR TO MOVE
(SUGGESTED BY THE SWIRLING, DARK ATMOSPHERE).
OR, THE BOAT MOVES BY PHLEGYAS, VIRGIL AND DANTE SHUFFLING TOGETHER IN MOMENTS OF
DARKNESS.
ALTERNATIVELY, AGAIN, THE BOAT IS ALMOST REAL, A BOARD PULLED ACROSS THE STAGE FROM
OFFSTAGE BY A ROPE. ANY JERKINESS WOULD FIT WITH PHLEGYAS’S ANGRY POLLING.
AFTER A LITTLE WHILE, THE SPIRIT OF FILIPPO ARGENTI APPEARS AT THE EDGE OF THE STAGE AND
MOVES SLOWLY TOWARDS THE BOAT ON HIS KNEES, AS IF WADING THROUGH MUD.
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