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OF DANTE ALIGHIERI
(1265-1321)
TRANSLATED BY
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
(1807-1882)
CANTICLE I: INFERNO
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CONTENTS
Inferno
Inferno: Canto I
Inferno: Canto II
Inferno: Canto IV
Inferno: Canto V
Inferno: Canto VI
Say where they are, and cause that I may know them;
For great desire constraineth me to learn
If Heaven doth sweeten them, or Hell envenom."
Inferno: Canto IX
Inferno: Canto X
Inferno: Canto XI
And the trunk said: "So thy sweet words allure me,
I cannot silent be; and you be vexed not,
That I a little to discourse am tempted.
Inferno: Canto XV
The one who wins, and not the one who loses.
Inferno: Canto XX
They lowered their rakes, and "Wilt thou have me hit him,"
They said to one another, "on the rump?"
And answered: "Yes; see that thou nick him with it."
Who takes her son, and flies, and does not stop,
Having more care of him than of herself,
So that she clothes her only with a shift;
Save that at this 'tis broken, and does not bridge it;
You will be able to mount up the ruin,
That sidelong slopes and at the bottom rises."
"Nor death hath reached him yet, nor guilt doth bring him,"
My Master made reply, "to be tormented;
But to procure him full experience,
Less strange, know that these are not towers, but giants,
And they are in the well, around the bank,
From navel downward, one and all of them."
Search round thy neck, and thou wilt find the belt
Which keeps it fastened, O bewildered soul,
And see it, where it bars thy mighty breast."