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Название: The Divine Comedy (Complete Annotated Edition)

Автор: Dante Alighieri

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СКАЧАТЬ Sant’ Andrea!4 what avails it thee,”

      It cried, “that of me thou hast made thy screen?

      For thy ill life what blame on me recoils?”

      When o’er it he had paus’d, my master spake:

      “Say who wast thou, that at so many points

      Breath’st out with blood thy lamentable speech?”

      He answer’d: “Oh, ye spirits: arriv’d in time

      To spy the shameful havoc, that from me

      My leaves hath sever’d thus, gather them up,

      And at the foot of their sad parent-tree

      Who for the Baptist her first patron chang’d,

      Whence he for this shall cease not with his art

      To work her woe: and if there still remain’d not

      On Arno’s passage some faint glimpse of him,

      Those citizens, who rear’d once more her walls

      Upon the ashes left by Attila,

      Had labour’d without profit of their toil.

      Footnotes

      Canto XIV

       Table of Contents

      ARGUMENT.—They arrive at the beginning of the third of those compartments into which this seventh circle is divided. It is a plain of dry and hot sand, where three kinds of violence are punished; namely, against God, against Nature, and against Art; and those who have thus sinned, are tormented by flakes of fire, which are eternally showering down upon them. Among the violent against God is found Capaneus, whose blasphemies they hear. Next, turning to the left along the forest of self-slayers, and having journeyed a little onward, they meet with a streamlet of blood that issues from the forest and traverses the sandy plain. Here Virgil speaks to our Poet of a huge ancient statue that stands within Mount Ida in Crete, from a fissure in which statue there is a dripping of tears, from which the said streamlet, together with the three other infernal rivers, are formed.

      SOON as the charity of native land

      Wrought in my bosom, I the scatter’d leaves

      Collected, and to him restor’d, who now

      Was hoarse with utt’rance. To the limit thence

      We came, which from the third the second round

      Divides, and where of justice is display’d

      Contrivance horrible. Things then first seen

      Clearlier to manifest, I tell how next

      A plain we reach’d, that from its sterile bed

      Each plant repell’d. The mournful wood waves round

      Its garland on all sides, as round the wood

      Spreads the sad foss. There, on the very edge,

      Our steps we stay’d. It was an area wide

      Of arid sand and thick, resembling most

      The soil that erst by Cato’s foot was trod.

      Vengeance of Heav’n! Oh! how shouldst thou be fear’d

      By all, who read what here my eyes beheld!

      Of naked spirits many a flock I saw,

      All weeping piteously, to different laws

      Subjected: for on the’ earth some lay supine,

      Some crouching close were seated, others pac’d

      Incessantly around; the latter tribe,

      More numerous, those fewer who beneath

      The torment lay, but louder in their grief.

      O’er all the sand fell slowly wafting down

      Dilated flakes of fire, as flakes of snow

      On Alpine summit, when the wind is hush’d.

      As in the torrid Indian clime, the son

      Of Ammon saw upon his warrior band

      Descending, solid flames, that to the ground

      Came СКАЧАТЬ