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This translation of Dante’s Convito–the first in English–is from the hand of a lady whose enthusiasm for the genius of Dante has made it a chief pleasure of her life to dwell on it by translating, not his Divine Comedy only, but also the whole body of his other works. Among those works the Vita Nuova and the Convito have a distinct place, as leading up to the great masterpiece. In the New Life, Man starts on his career with human love that points to the divine……………

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Dante Alighieri

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part X

COULD I command rough rhimes and hoarse, to suit
That hole of sorrow, o’er which ev’ry rock
His firm abutment rears, then might the vein
Of fancy rise full springing: but not mine
Such measures, and with falt’ring awe I touch
The mighty theme; for to describe the depth
Of all the universe, is no emprize
To jest with, and demands a tongue not us’d
To infant babbling. But let them assist
My song, the tuneful maidens, by whose aid
Amphion wall’d in Thebes, so with the truth…………..

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Dante Alighieri

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part IX

But Virgil rous’d me: “What yet gazest on?
Wherefore doth fasten yet thy sight below
Among the maim’d and miserable shades?
Thou hast not shewn in any chasm beside
This weakness. Know, if thou wouldst number them
That two and twenty miles the valley winds
Its circuit, and already is the moon
Beneath our feet: the time permitted now
Is short, and more not seen remains to see.”……………

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Dante Alighieri

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part VIII

The present fray had turn’d my thoughts to muse
Upon old Aesop’s fable, where he told
What fate unto the mouse and frog befell.
For language hath not sounds more like in sense,
Than are these chances, if the origin
And end of each be heedfully compar’d.
And as one thought bursts from another forth,
So afterward from that another sprang,
Which added doubly to my former fear…….

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Dante Alighieri

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri pat VII

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri pat VII l

THERE is a place within the depths of hell
Call’d Malebolge, all of rock dark-stain’d
With hue ferruginous, e’en as the steep
That round it circling winds. Right in the midst
Of that abominable region, yawns
A spacious gulf profound, whereof the frame
Due time shall tell. The circle, that remains,
Throughout its round, between the gulf and base
Of the high craggy banks, successive forms
Ten trenches, in its hollow bottom sunk……………..

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Dante Alighieri

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part VI

ERE Nessus yet had reach’d the other bank,
We enter’d on a forest, where no track
Of steps had worn a way. Not verdant there
The foliage, but of dusky hue; not light
The boughs and tapering, but with knares deform’d
And matted thick: fruits there were none, but thorns
Instead, with venom fill’d. Less sharp than these,
Less intricate the brakes, wherein abide
Those animals, that hate the cultur’d fields,
Betwixt Corneto and Cecina’s stream……………..

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Dante Alighieri

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part V

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part V l

THE hue, which coward dread on my pale cheeks
Imprinted, when I saw my guide turn back,
Chas’d that from his which newly they had worn,
And inwardly restrain’d it. He, as one
Who listens, stood attentive: for his eye
Not far could lead him through the sable air,
And the thick-gath’ring cloud. “It yet behooves
We win this fight”—thus he began—”if not—……

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Dante Alighieri

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part IV

“AH me! O Satan! Satan!” loud exclaim’d
Plutus, in accent hoarse of wild alarm:
And the kind sage, whom no event surpris’d,
To comfort me thus spake: “Let not thy fear
Harm thee, for power in him, be sure, is none
To hinder down this rock thy safe descent.”
Then to that sworn lip turning, “Peace!” he cried,………

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Dante Alighieri

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri patr III

FROM the first circle I descended thus
Down to the second, which, a lesser space
Embracing, so much more of grief contains
Provoking bitter moans. There, Minos stands
Grinning with ghastly feature: he, of all
Who enter, strict examining the crimes,…………..

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Dante Alighieri

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part II

“THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure………

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Dante Alighieri

The vision of hell, complete by dante alighieri part I

IN the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray
Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell
It were no easy task, how savage wild
That forest, how robust and rough its growth,
Which to remember only, my dismay
Renews, in bitterness not far from death.
Yet to discourse of what there good befell,
All else will I relate discover’d there……………

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Dante Alighieri

The banquet of dante alighieri

The banquet of dante alighieri

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part X

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part X

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part IX

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part IX

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part VIII

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part VIII

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri pat VII

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri pat VII l

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part VI

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part VI

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part V

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part V l

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part IV

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part IV

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri patr III

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri patr III

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part II

The vision Of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante alighieri part II

The vision of hell, complete by dante alighieri part I

The vision of hell, complete by dante alighieri part I

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