Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy (ciardi)
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Dante Alighieris poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.
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from the straight road and woke to find myself
alone in a dark wood. How shall I say
so rank, so arduous a wilderness!
Its very memory gives a shape to fear.
But since it came to good, I will recount
all that I found revealed there by Gods grace.
so drugged and loose with sleep had I become
when I first wandered there from the True Way.
whose maze had sapped my very heart with fear!
I found myself before a little hill
already with the sweet rays of that planet
whose virtue leads men straight on every road,
whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart
through all the terrors of that piteous night.
flounders ashore from perilous seas, might turn
to memorize the wide water of his death
from deaths surviving image, to stare down
that pass that none had ever left alive.
till calm and breath returned to me. Then rose
and pushed up that dead slope at such a pace
almost at the beginning of the rise
I faced a spotted Leopard, all tremor and flow
so blocking my every turn that time and again
I was on the verge of turning back to the wood.
as the sun was climbing Aries with those stars
that rode with him to light the new creation.
of commemoration did much to arm my fear
of that bright murderous beast with their good omen.
at sight of a great Lion that broke upon me
raging with hunger, its enormous head
into the very air. And down his track,
a She-Wolf drove upon me, a starved horror
She seemed a rack for avarice, gaunt and craving.
Oh many the souls she has brought to endless grief!
at sight of her savagery and desperation,
I died from every hope of that high summit.
but desperate in self-reproach when Fortunes wheel
turns to the hour of his lossall tears and attrition
forcing herself against me bit by bit
till I slid back into the sunless wood.
gathered before me on the discolored air,
the figure of one who seemed hoarse from long silence.
Have pity on me, whatever thing you are,
whether shade or living man. And it replied:
was Lombard, both my parents Mantuan.
I was born, though late, sub Julio, and bred
of the false and lying gods. I was a poet
and sang of old Anchises noble son
But youwhy do you return to these distresses
instead of climbing that shining Mount of Joy
And are you then that Virgil and that fountain
of purest speech? My voice grew tremulous:
and loves apprenticeship that I poured out
on your heroic verses serve me well!
the sole maker from whom I drew the breath
of that sweet style whose measures have brought me honor.
For my souls salvation, I beg you, guard me from her,
for she has struck a mortal tremor through me.
He must go by another way who would escape
this wilderness, for that mad beast that fleers
She tracks down all, kills all, and knows no glut,
but, feeding, she grows hungrier than she was.
before the Greyhound comes to hunt her down.
He will not feed on lands nor loot, but honor
He will rise between Feltro and Feltro, and in him
shall be the resurrection and new day
and Turnus, and Euryalus, and the maid Camilla.
He shall hunt her through every nation of sick pride
whence Envy first released her on the world.
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