The Divine Comedy (Illustrated Edition). Dante Alighieri

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      The foe should break; so close he hemm’d them round.

      I to my leader’s side adher’d, mine eyes

      With fixt and motionless observance bent

      On their unkindly visage. They their hooks

      Protruding, one the other thus bespake:

      “Wilt thou I touch him on the hip?” To whom

      Was answer’d: “Even so; nor miss thy aim.”

      But he, who was in conf’rence with my guide,

      Turn’d rapid round, and thus the demon spake:

      “Stay, stay thee, Scarmiglione!” Then to us

      He added: “Further footing to your step

      This rock affords not, shiver’d to the base

      Of the sixth arch. But would you still proceed,

      Up by this cavern go: not distant far,

      Another rock will yield you passage safe.

Yesterday,2 later by five hours than now,

      Twelve hundred threescore years and six had fill’d

      The circuit of their course, since here the way

      Was broken. Thitherward I straight dispatch

      Certain of these my scouts, who shall espy

      If any on the surface bask. With them

      Go ye: for ye shall find them nothing fell.

      Come Alichino forth,” with that he cried,

      “And Calcabrina, and Cagnazzo thou!

      The troop of ten let Barbariccia lead.

      With Libicocco Draghinazzo haste,

      Fang’d Ciriatto, Grafflacane fierce,

      And Farfarello, and mad Rubicant.

      Search ye around the bubbling tar. For these,

      In safety lead them, where the other crag

      Uninterrupted traverses the dens.”

      I then: “O master! what a sight is there!

      Ah! without escort, journey we alone,

      Which, if thou know the way, I covet not.

      Unless thy prudence fail thee, dost not mark

      How they do gnarl upon us, and their scowl

      Threatens us present tortures?” He replied:

      “I charge thee fear not: let them, as they will,

      Gnarl on: ’t is but in token of their spite

      Against the souls, who mourn in torment steep’d.”

      To leftward o’er the pier they turn’d; but each

      Had first between his teeth prest close the tongue,

      Toward their leader for a signal looking,

      Which he with sound obscene triumphant gave.

      Footnotes

1 “From Caprona.” The surrender of the castle of Caprona to the combined forces of Florence and Lucca, on condition that the garrison should march out in safety, to which event Dante was a witness, took place in 1290. See G. Villani, Hist. lib. vii. c. cxxxvi

2 “Yesterday.” This passage fixes the era of Dante’s descent at Good Friday, in the year 1300 (thirty-four years from our blessed Lord’s incarnation being added to 1266), and at the thirty-fifth year of our Poet’s age. See Canto i. v. I. The awful event alluded to, the Evangelists inform us, happened “at the ninth hour,” that is, our sixth, when “the rocks were rent,” and the convulsion, according to Dante, was felt even in the depths of Hell. See Canto xii. v. 38.

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