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A SPIRIT RISES FROM ITS FIERY SEPULCHRE BEHIND FARINATA ‘VISIBLE DOWN TO THE TIP OF ITS CHIN’. IT<br />
GAZES AROUND DANTE ‘AS IF IT WISHED TO SEE WHETHER ANYONE WAS WITH ME’ THEN LAMENTS [INF<br />
C10 52-58].<br />
CAVALCANTE CAVALCANTI:<br />
INF C10 58-60 / DANTE INF C10 58-60 / KLINE<br />
piangendo disse: «Se per questo cieco it said, weeping: If by power of intellect,<br />
carcere vai per altezza d'ingegno, you go through this blind prison,<br />
mio figlio ov' è? e perché non è teco?». where is my son, and why is he not with you?<br />
CAVALCANTE CAVALCANTI *---- - *---- ? AGE : 70??<br />
PLACE./.LANGUAGE ETC<br />
FLORENCE.<br />
DESCRIPTION<br />
*<br />
CAVALCANTE CAVALCANTI: FATHER OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI. SEE BOCCACCIO’S DECAMERON 6 9, WHICH CONCERNS GUIDO.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C10 61-63 / DANTE INF C10 61-63 / KLINE<br />
E io a lui: «Da me stesso non vegno: And I to him: I do not come through my own<br />
colui ch'attende là, per qui mi mena initiative: he that waits there, whom your Guido<br />
forse cui Guido vostro ebbe a disdegno». disdained perhaps, leads me through this place.<br />
GUIDO DE’ CAVALCANTI: POET, BORN 1250-1259, WAS FARINATA’S SON-IN-LAW & A PROMINENT WHITE GUELPH. HE<br />
MARRIED FARINATA’S DAUGHTER, BEATRICE, DURING ONE OF THE ATTEMPTS TO FORGE PEACE THROUGH MARRIAGE<br />
ALLIANCES. HE, ‘THE FIRST OF MY FRIENDS’, & DANTE ARE THE CHIEF POETS OF THE FLORENTINE SCHOOL OF THE DOLCE STIL<br />
NUOVE STYLE OF LYRIC POETRY THAT SUPERSEDED THE BOLOGNESE SCHOOL OF GUIDO GUINICELLI. THE VITA NUOVA WAS<br />
DEDICATED TO GUIDO. HE WAS EXILED WITH THE WHITES (A DECISION DANTE WAS PARTY TO) IN JUNE 1300 TO SARZANA IN<br />
THE LUNIGIANA. ALLOWED TO RETURN TO FLORENCE, DUE TO ILLNESS, CAUSED BY THE UNHEALTHY LOCALITY, HE DIED IN<br />
THE AUGUST & WAS BURIED ON AUGUST 29TH, BUT WAS STILL ALIVE AT THE TIME OF THE VISION ITSELF.<br />
INF C10 64-66 / KLINE<br />
His words and the nature of his punishment had spelt his name to me, so that my answer was a full one.<br />
CAVALCANTE CAVALCANTI STANDS [INF C10 67], RELEASING MORE FIERY LIGHT.<br />
CAVALCANTE CAVALCANTI:<br />
INF C10 67-69 / DANTE INF C10 67-69 / KLINE<br />
Di sùbito drizzato gridò: «Come? Suddenly raising himself erect, he cried:<br />
dicesti ``elli ebbe"? non viv' elli ancora? What did you say? Disdained? Is he not still<br />
non fiere li occhi suoi lo dolce lume?». alive? Does the sweet light not strike his eyes?<br />
INF C10 70-75 / KLINE<br />
When he saw that I delayed in answering, he dropped supine again, and showed himself no more. But the other one,<br />
at whose wish I had first stopped, generously did not alter his aspect or move his neck, or turn his side.<br />
DANTE DELAYS HIS ANSWER AND CAVALCANTE DROPS OUT OF SIGHT [INF C10 70-72].<br />
FARINATA CONTINUES HIS PREVIOUS WORDS WITHOUT MOVING HIS HEAD [INF C10 73-75] AS DANTE MAY<br />
QUIETLY VERSIFY.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C10 67-69 / DANTE INF C10 67-69 / KLINE<br />
Di sùbito drizzato gridò: «Come? Suddenly raising himself erect, he cried:<br />
dicesti ``elli ebbe"? non viv' elli ancora? What did you say? Disdained? Is he not still alive?<br />
non fiere li occhi suoi lo dolce lume?». Does the sweet light not strike his eyes?<br />
FARINATA:<br />
INF C10 76-78 / DANTE INF C10 76-78 / KLINE<br />
e sé continüando al primo detto, Continuing his previous words, he said:<br />
«S'elli han quell' arte», disse, «male appresa, And if my party have learnt that art of return badly,<br />
ciò mi tormenta più che questo letto. it tortures me more than this bed,<br />
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