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INF C8 130 / DANTE
tal che per lui ne fia la terra aperta». one for whom the city shall open to us.
DANTE NOTES EARLIER WORDS FROM VIRGIL THEN CLOSES THE CANTO.
DANTE:
INF C8 119-120 / DANTE INF C8 119-120 / KLINE
d'ogne baldanza, e dicea ne' sospiri: devoid of all daring, and he said, sighing: Who are
«Chi m'ha negate le dolenti case!». these who deny me entrance to the house of pain?
INF C8 122 / DANTE INF C8 122 / KLINE
non sbigottir, ch'io vincerò la prova, do not you be dismayed: I will win the trial,
INF C8 128-129 / DANTE INF C8 128-129 / KLINE
e già di qua da lei discende l'erta, on this side of its entrance, one is coming,
passando per li cerchi sanza scorta, down the steep, passing the circles unescorted,
INF C8 130 / DANTE
tal che per lui ne fia la terra aperta». one for whom the city shall open to us.
A HEAVENLY SPOTLIGHT..◙ ..PICKS OUT THE HEAVENLY MESSENGER MANIFESTING ON THE → R → .
HEAVENLY MESSENGER AGE : 30?
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC
HEAVEN.
DESCRIPTION
SEEN ONLY HERE (SPEAKS LATER). HEAVENLY ROBE, DOZING WITH A BLISSFUL LOOK. THERE IS A BIBLE ON
HIS KNEES.
ANOTHER HEAVENLY SPOTLIGHT..◙ .PICKS OUT BEATRICE HEAVENWALKING IN HIS DIRECTION. THE
SPOTLIGHTS TURN OFF TOGETHER.
CANTO 9
INF C9 1-6 / KLINE
The colour that cowardice had printed on my face, seeing my guide turn back, made him repress his own heightened
colour more swiftly. He stopped, attentive, like one who listens, since his eyes could not penetrate far, through the
black air and the thick fog.
VIRGIL IS ‘STOPPED, ATTENTIVE, LIKE ONE WHO LISTENS’ [INF C9 4]. HE IS WAITING FOR THE HELP
PROMISED BY BEATRICE.
VIRGIL:
INF C9 7-9 / DANTE INF C9 7-9 / KLINE
«Pur a noi converrà vincer la punga», Nevertheless we must win this struggle, he began,
cominciò el, «se non . . . Tal ne s'offerse. if not … then help such as this was offered to us.
Oh quanto tarda a me ch'altri qui giunga!». Oh, how long it seems to me, that other’s coming!
INF C9 10-15 / KLINE
I saw clearly, how he hid the meaning of his opening words with their sequel, words differing from his initial
thought. None the less his speech made me afraid, perhaps because I took his broken phrases to hold a worse
meaning than they did.
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