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and Dante's Divine Comedy: 1st bet. Inferno, canto III "Charon"

From now on, Culture and History on the Other, a book that will document and we will tell our readers the Divine Comedy.

The original text, will be followed by a paraphrase. The historic







Inferno, canto III: Charon





Original text:

1. And here to us in a boat

An old hoary hair

Screamin '"Woe to the wicked souls

2. no hope of ever seeing the sky

the 'come to lead you to' other bank

in eternal darkness 'n hot' n cold.

3. And what if it costs a soul

parties from these people who are dead "

But when he saw I did not withdraw

4. He said, "By other ways, by other ports

will take you to the shore, not here to pass

lighter vessel needs must carry thee"

5. E 'guide then "do not fret Caron

so willed there where is power

What you want and ask no more"

6. Hence were quieted the fleecy cheeks

the ferryman of the livid fen

Che 'round about alli eyes had wheels of flame

7. But that 'souls ch' were bare and loose

color changed and the teeth dibattìeno

rat 'nteser the cruel words

8 . blasphemed God and their parents

L 'human race' the time 'the place' the seed

Of their engendering and of their birth

9 . Then all together they drew back

weeping, on the banks bad

Ch 'expects every man who fears not God

10. by Caron devil 'eyes braga

Lor brings them all pointing

beats with his oar whoever s' lies

11. How d 'autumn leaves levan

' s one and then of 'the other, as long as' the branch

see the earth surrenders all its spoils

12. Similarly, the evil seed of Adam '

Throw themselves from that margin one by one

signals, as a bird unto its lure

Paraphrase:

1. At one point we had close on a ship, an old man with white beard and shouting "Look out, evil souls,

2. Do not expect ever again to revise the sky: I come to bring you all 'other side (of the river Acheron) in the eternal darkness that is in the ice in the fire ("'N hot' n cold" Dante refers to the various penalties because some damned are plunged into the ice and others were burnt by fire).

3. And you who are here, alive, go away from these dead souls. " But when I saw that I was going

4. said, "For another way, to another river you will come to another beach, you will not be here: You will go to purgatory transported by a lighter boat (for the sins of those who are destined to purgatory, they are transported by boat more light, as a sign of sins less serious).

5. Virgil, then, he said (The word "Duke" comes from the Latin ducs, ducis meaning guide) "Charon, do not get mad. Decided that the one who decides everything (God) and not ask anything more. "

6. The cheeks of a pilot stopped the dark swamp (he stopped talking), and his eyes became red around the eyes as if he had the flames.

7.E Meanwhile, the souls who were waiting for the boat, hearing those words (Woe to the evil souls) grew pale and began to chatter.

8. They blasphemed God and their parents (relatives), the human species and the place and date of their birth and their ancestors.

9. Then they all started toward the ship, crying to the other side (from which there is no turning back) that awaits all who do not fear God (who have made enormous sins)

10 . Charon the demon eyes burning with a wave gathering souls and affects those who linger with his oar.

11. As autumn leaves fall in a next to 'until the other branch does not see any ground

12. So the evil descendants of Adam, one by one climb on the ship as a bird to the call (at the time of Dante in fact, they used live bait to hunt birds. For example, if they trained for a recall another).

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