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That is the one you will grip next, but try it first to see if it is firm.
virgil
Now you must cast aside your laziness for he who rests on down or under covers cannot come to fame; and he who spends his life without renoun leaves such a vestige of himself on earth as smoke bequeaths to air or foam to water.
Virgil
Therefore, get up; defeat your breathlessness with spirit that can win all battles if the body's heaviness does not deter it. A longer ladder still is to be climbed; it's not enough to have left them behind; if you have understood, now profit from it.
virgil
Go now, for I am strong and confident.
Dante
Can we reach the other belt? Let us descend the wall, for as I hear and cannot understand, so I see down but can distinguish nothing.
Dante
The only answer that I give to you is doing it a just requestis to be met in silence, by the act.
Virgil
Not long since, I rained from Tuscany into this savage maw. Mule that I was, the bestial life pleased me and not the human; I am ____ _____, beast; and the den that suited me--Pistoia.
Vanni Fucci
Tell him not to slip away, and ask him what sin has thrust him here; I knew him as a man of blood and anger.
Dante
I suffer more because you've caught me in this, the misery you see, than I suffered when taken from the other life. I can't refuse to answer what you ask: I am set down so far because I robbed the sacristy of its fair ornaments, and someone else was falsely blamed for that.
Vanni Fucci
But lest htis sight give you too much delight, if you can ever leave these lands of darkness, open your ears to my announcement, hear: Pistoia frst will strip herself of Blacks, then Florence will renew her men and manners. From Val di Magra, Mars will draw a vapor which turbid clouds will try to wrap; the clash between them will be fierce, impetuous, a tempest, fought upon Campo Piceno, until that vapor, vigorous, shall crack the mist, and every White be struck by it. And I have told you this to make you grieve.
Vanni fucci
8th Circle 7th pouch
The thieves
Take that O God; I square them off for you!
Vanni Fucci
Where is he, where's that bitter one?
Cacus
That Centuar there is Cacus, who oftem made a lake of blood within a grotto underneath Mount Aventine. He does not ride the same road as his brothers because he stole--most deceitfully--from the great herd nearby; his crooked deeds ended beneath the club of Hercules, who may have given hima hundred blows--but he was not alive to feel the tenth.
Virgil
And who are you?
Florentines
Where was cianfa left behind?
Florentines.
Ah me, Agnello, how you change! Juse see, you are already neither two nor one!
Florentines
I'd have Buoso run on all fours down this road, as I have done.
Florentines
8th circle 7th pouch
Thieves fraudulant counselors are clohed in flames that burn them
within those fires there are souls; each one is swathed in that which scorches him.
Virgil
On hearing you, I am more sure; but i'd already thought that it was so, and I had meant to ask: who is within the flame that comes so twinned above that it would seem to rise out of the pyre Eteocles shared with his brother.
Dante
Within that flame, Ulysses and Diomedes suffer; they grieve over the horse's fraud that caused a breach--the gate that let Rome's noble seed escape. There they regret the guiile that makes the dead Deiamia still lament Achilles; and there, for the Palladium, they pay.
Virgil
If they can speak within those sparks I pray you and repray and, master, may my prayer be worth a thousand pleas, do not forbid my waiting here until the flame with horns approaches us; for you can see how, out of my desire, I bend toward it.
Dante
What you have asked is worthy of every praise; therefore, I favor it. I only ask you this, refrain from talking. Let me address them--I have understood what you desire of them. Since they were Greek perhaps they'd be disdainful of your speech.
Virgil
You two who move as one within the flame, if I deserved of you while I still lived, if I deserved of you much or a little when in the world I wrote my noble lines, do not move on; let one of you retell where, having gone astray, he found his death.
Virgil
Whenm I sailed away from Circe, who'd beguiled me to stay ore than a year there, near Gaeta--before Aeneas gave that place a name--neither my fondness for my son nor pity for my old father nor the love I owed Penelope, which would have gladdened her, was able to defeat in me the longing I had to gain experience of the world and of the vices and the worth of men.
Ulysses
Therefore, I set out on the open sea with but one ship and that small company of those who never had deserted me. I saw as far as Spain, far as Morocco, along both shores; I saw Sardinia and saw the other islands that sea bathes. And I and my companions were already old and slow, when we approached the narrows where Hercules set up his boundary stones that men might heed and never reach beyond: upon my right, I had gone past Seville, and on the left, already passesd Ceuta.
Ulysses
'Brothers' I said, 'o you, who having crossed a hundred thousand dangers, reach the west, to this brief waking-time that still is left unto your senses, you must not deny experience of that which lies beyond the sun, and of the world that is unpeopled.
Ulyesses
Consider well the seed that gave you birth: you were not made to live your lives as brutes, but to be followers of worth and knowledge.' I spurred my comrades with this brief address to meet the journey with such eagerness that I could hardly, then. have held them back; and having turned our stern toward morning, we made wings out of our oars in a wild flight and always gained upon our left-hand side.
Ulysses
At night I now could see the other pole and all its stars; the star of ours had fallen and never rose above the plain of the ocean. Five times the light beneath the moon had been rekindled, and, as many times, was spent, since that hard passage faced our first attempt, when there before us rose a mountain, dark because of distance, and it seemed to me the highest mountain I had ever seen.
ulysses
And we were glad, but this soon turned to sorrow, for out of that new land a whirlwind rose and hammered at our ship, against her bow. Three times it turned her round with all the waters; and at the fourth, it lifted up the stern so that our prow plunged deep, as pleased an Other, until the sea again closed--over us.
Ulysses
8th Circle 8th pouch
fraudulant counselors
O you whom I turn my voice, who only now were talking Lombard, saying, 'Now yiou may leave--?I'll not provoke more speech,' though I have come perhaps a little late, may it not trouble you to stop and speak with me; see how I stay--and I am burning.
Guido da Montefeltro
If you have fallen into this blind world but recently, out of the sweet Italian country from which I carry all my guilt, do tell me if the Romagnoles have peace or war; I was from there--the hills between Urbino and the ridge where Tiber springs.
Guido da montefeltro
You speak; he is Italian.
Virgil
O soul that is concealed below in flame, Romagna is not now and never was quite free of war inside its tyrants' hearts; but when I left her, none had broken out. Ravenna stands as it has stood for years; the eagle of Polenta shelters it and also covers Cervia with his wings.
Dante
The city that already stood long trial and m ade a bloody heap out of the French, now finds itself again beneath green paws. Both mastiffs of Verrucchio, old and new, who dealt so badly with Montagna, use their teeth to bore where they have always gnawed. The cities on Lamone and Saterno are led by the young lion of the white lair; from summer unto winter, he shiftsfactions.
Dante
That city with its side bathed by the Savio, just as it lies between the plain and mountian, lives somewhere between tyranny and freedom. And now, I pray you, tell me who you are: do not be harder than I've been with you, that in the world your name may still endure.
Dante
If I thought my reply were meant for one who ever could return into the world, this flame would stir no more; and yet, since none--if what I hear is true--ever returned alive from this abyss, then without fear of fancing infamy, I answer you.
Guido da Montefeltro
I was a man of arms, then wore the cord, believing that, so girt, I made amends; and surely what I thought would have been true had not the Highest Priest--may be be damned--made me fall back into my former sins; and how and why, I'd have you hear from me.
Guido da Montefeltro
While I still had the form of bones and flesh my mother gave to me, my deeds were not those of the lion but those of the fox. The wiles and secret ways--I knew them all and so employed their arts that my renown had reached the very boundaries of earth.
Guido da Montefeltro
But when I saw myself come to that part of life when it is fitting for all men to lower sails and gather in their ropes, what once had been my joy was now dejection; repenting and confessing, I became a friar; and--poor me--it would have helped.
Guido de Monterfeltro
The prince of the new Pharisees, who then was waging war so near the Lateran--and not against the Jews or Saracens, for every enemy of his was Christian, and none of them had gone to conquer Acre or been a trader in the Sultan's lands--took no care for the highest office or the holy orders that were his, or for my cord, which used to make its wearers leaner.
Guido da Montefeltro
But just as Constantine, on Mount Soracte, to cure his leporasy, sought out Sylvester, so this one sought me out as his instructor, to ease the fever of his arrogance. He asked me to give counsel. I was silent--his words had seemed to me delirious.
Guido da montefeltro
And then he said: 'Your heart must not mistrust: I now absolve your in advance--teach me to batter Penestrino to the ground. You surely know that I possess the power to lock and unlock Heaven; for the keys my predecessor did not prize are two.'
Guido da Montefeltro
Then his grave agruements compelled me so, my silence seemed a worse offense than speech, and I said: 'Since you cleanse me of the sin that I must now fall into, Father, know: long promises and very brief fulfillments will bring a victory to your high throne.'
Guido da Montefeltro
Then Francis came, as soon as I was dead, for me; but one of the black cherubin told him: 'Don't bear him off; do not cheat me. He must come down among my menials; the counsel that he gave was fraudulent; since then I've kept close track to snatch his scalp; one can't absolve a man who's not repented, and no one can repent and will at once; the law of contradiction won't allow it.
Guido da Montefeltro
O miserable me, for how I started when he took hold of me and said: 'Perhaps you did not think that I was a logician!' He carried me to Minos; and that monster twisted his tail eight times around his hide and then, when he had bit it in great anger announced: 'This one s for the thieving fire'; for which--and where, you see--I now am lost, and in this garb I move in bitterness.
Guido da Montefeltro
8th circle 9th pouch
sowers of scandal and schism
See how I split myself! See now how maimed mohammed is! And he who walks and weeps before me is Ali, whose face is opened from chin to forelock. And all the others here whom you can see were, when alive, the sowers of dissension and scandal, and for this they now are split.
Mohammed
Behind us here, A devil decks us out s cruelly, re-placing every one of this throng underneath the sword edge when we've made our way around the road of pain, because our wounds have closed again before we have returned to meet his blade once more. But who are you who dawdle on this ridge, perhaps to slow your going to the verdict that was pronounced on your self-accusations?
Mohammed
Death has not reached him yet nor is it guilt that summons him to torment; but that he may gain ful experience, I, who am dead, must guide him here below, to circle after circle, throughout Hell: this is as true as that I speak to you.
Virgil
Then you, who will perhaps soon see the sun, tell Pra Dolcino to provide himself tiwh food, if he has no desire to joiin me here quickly, lest when snow besieges him, it bring the Novarses the victory that otherwise they would not find too easy.
Mohammed
O you whom guilt does not condemn, and whom, unless too close resemblance cheats me, I've seen above upon Italian soil, remember Pier da Medicina if you ever see again the gentle plain that from Vercelli slopes to Maracabo.
Curio Mosca
And let the tow best men of Fano know==I mean both Messer Guido and Angiolello--that, the foresight we have here's not vain, they will be cast out of their ship and drowned, weighed down with stones, near La Cattolica, because of a foul tyrant's treachery.
Curio Mosca
Between the isles of Cyprus and Majorca, Neptune has never seen so cruel a crime committed by the pirates or the Argives. That traitor who sees only with one eye and rules the land which one who's herewith me would wsh his sight had never seen, will call Guido and Angiolello to a parley, and then will so arrange it that they'll need no vow or prayer to Focara's wind!
Curio Mosca
If you would have me carry some news of you above, then tell and show me who detests the sight of Rimmini.
Dante
This is he, and he speaks not. A man cast out, he quenched the doubt in Caesar, insisting that the one who is prepared can only suffer harm if he delays.
Curio Mosca
You will remember Mosca, too, who said--alas--'What's done is at an end,' which was the seed of evil for the Tuscans.
Curio Mosca
--and brought death to your own kinsmen.
Dante
Now you can see atrocious punishment, you who, still breathing, go to view the dead: see if there's an paiin as great as this. And so that you may carry news of me, know that I am Bertran de Born, the one who gave bad counsel to the fledgling king. I made the son and father enemies: Achitophel with his malicious urgings did not do worse with Absalom and David.
Bertran De Born
Because I severed those so joined, I carry--alas--my brain dissevered from its source, wichi is within my trunk. And thus, in me one who sees the law of counter-penalty.
Bertran de Born
Why are you staring so insistently? why does your vision linger there below among the lost and mutilated shadows? You did not do so at the other moats. If you would count them all, consider: twenty-two miles make up the circuit of the valley. The mooon already is beneath our feet; the time alloted to us now is short, and there is more to see than you see here.
Virgil
Had you been able to consider why I looked you might have granted me a longer stay
Dante
In that hollow upon which, just now, I kept my eyes intent, I think a spirit born of my blood laments the guilt which, down below, costs one so much.
Virgil
Don't let your thoughts about him interrupt you from here on: attend to other things, let him stay there; for I saw him below the little bridge, his finger pointing at you, threatening, and heard him called by name--Geri del Bello. But at that moment you were occupied with him who once was lord of Hautefort; you did not notice Geri--he moved off.
Virgil
It was his death by violence for which he still is not avenged by anyone who shares his shame, that made him so disainful now; and--I suppose--for this he left without a word to me, and this has made me pity him the more.
Dante
O you who use your nails to strip yourself and cometimes have to turn them into pincers, tell us if there are some Italians among the sinners in this moat--so may your nails hold out, eternal, at their work.
Virgil
From circle down to circle, together with this living man, I am one who descends; I mean to show him Hell.
Virgil
Now tell them what it is you want.
Virgil
So that your memory may never fade within the first world from the minds of men, but still live on--and under many suns--do tell me who you are and from what city, and do not let your vile and filthy torment make you afraid to let me know your names.
Dante
My city was Arezzo and Albero of Siena had me burned; but what I died for does not bring me here. It's true that I had told him--jestingly--'I'd know enough to fly through air'; and he, with curiosity, but little sense, wished me to show that art to him and, just because I had not made him Daedalus, had one who held him as a son burn me. But Minos, who canjot mnistake, condemned my spirit to the final pouch of ten for alchemy I practiced in the world.
Griffolino
Was there ever so vain a people as the Sienese? Even the French can't match such vanity.
Dante
Excepr for Stricca, for he knew how to spend most frugally; and Niccolo, the first to make men see that cloves can serve as luxury (such seed, in gardens where it suits, can take fast root); and too, Caccia d' Asciano's company, with whom he squandered vineyards and tilled fields, while Abbagliato showed such subtlety.
Capoccio
But if you want to know who joins you so against the Sienese, look hard at me--that way, my face can also answer rightly--and see that I'm the shade of that ______ whose alchemmy could counterfeit fine metals. And you, if I correctly take your measure, recall how apt I was at aping nature.
Capocchio
Let's spread the nets, to take the lioness together with her cubs along the pass.
Gianni
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falsifiers counterfeiters of others' persons
8th circle 10th pouch 3rd group
counterfeiters of coins
8th circle 10th pouch 4th group
falsifiers of words, liars
so may the other not sink its teeth in you, please tell me who it is before it hurries off from here.
Dante
That is the ancient soul of the indecent Myrrha, she who loved her father past the limits of just love. She came to sin with him by falsely taking another's shape upon herself, just as the other phantom who goes there had done, that he might gain the lady of the herd, when he disguised himself as Buoso Donati, making a will as if most properly.
Griffolino
O you exempt from very punishment in this grim world, and I do not know why look now and pay attention to this, the misery of Master Adam: alive, I had enough of all I wanted; alas, I now long for one drop of water.
Master Adam
The rivulets that fall into the Arno down from the green hills of the Casentino with channels cool and moist, are constantly before me; I am racked by memory--the image of their flow parches me more than the disease that robs my face of flesh.
Master Adam
The rigid Justice that would torment me uses, as most appropriate, the place where I had sinned, to draw swift sighs from me. There is Romena, there I counterfeited the currency that bears the Baptist's seal; for this I left my body, burned, above.
Master Adam
But could I see the miserable souls of guido, Alessandro, or their brother, I'd not give up the sight for Fonte Branda. And one of them is in this moat already, if what the angry shades report is true. What use is that to me whose limbs are tied?
Master Adam
Were I so light that, in a hundred years, I could advance an inch, I should already be well upon the road to search for him among te mutilated ones, although this circuit measures some eleven miles and is at least a half a mile across. Because of them I'm in this family; it was those three who had incited me to coin the florins with three carats' doss.
Master Adam
Who are those two poor sinners who give off smoke like wet hands in the winter and lie so close to you upon the right?
Dante
I found them here when I rained down to this rocky slope; they've not stirred since and will not move, I think, eternally. One is the lying woman who blamed Joseph; the other, lying Sinon, Greek from Troy: because of raging fever they reek so.
Master Adam
Although I cannot move my limbs because they are too heavy, I still have an arm that's free to serve that need.
Sinon
But when you went to burning, your arm was not as quick as it was now; though when you coined, it was as quick and more.
Adam
Here you speak true; but you were not so true a witness there, when you were asked to tell the truth at Troy.
Potipher's wife
If I spoke false, you falsified the coin I am here for just one crime--but you've committed more than any demon.
Sinon
Don't forget the horse, you prejurer may you be plauged because the whole world knows it.
Potipher's wife
And you be plagued by thirst that cracks your tounge, and outrid water that has made your belly such a hedge before your eyes.
Sinon
So as usual, your mouth, because of your raging fever, gapes; for if I thirst and if my humor bloats me, you have both dryness and a head that aches; few words would be sufficient invitation to have you lick the mirror of Narcissus.
Adam
If you insist on looking more I'll quarrel with you!
Virgil
Less shame would wash away a greater fault than was your fault therefore release yourself from all remorse and see that I am always at your side, should it so happen--once again--that fortune brings you where men would quarrel in this fashion: to want to hear such bickering is base.
Virgil