Fiction · 1320
Divine Comedy, Longfellow’s Translation
Dante Alighieri · translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Contents
- Epigraph
- I saw Camilla and Penthesilea
- Albeit that this people maledict
- He whose omniscience everything transcends
- Incontinence, and Malice, and insane
- When the exasperated soul abandons
- That one, who by the Servant of the Servants
- Reverberates there above San Benedetto
- I was already thoroughly disposed
- As in the Arsenal of the Venetians
- Step forward, Alichino and Calcabrina,”
- Infuriate at the mockery, Calcabrina
- Lamenting with the others, Barbariccia
- Silent, alone, and without company
- O everlastingly fatiguing mantle!
- And the Friar: “Many of the Devil’s vices
- And following the solitary path
- The cities of Lamone and Santerno
- The Leader of the modern Pharisees
- Shed by the Romans and the lingering war
- At Ceperano, where a renegade
- Between the isles of Cyprus and Majorca
- One to Capocchio came, and by the nape
- After the dolorous discomfiture
- Thereby Cocytus wholly was congealed
- Purgatorio
- Inasmuch as the instantaneous flight
- Meanwhile along the mountain-side across
- Ah! servile Italy, grief’s hostelry!
- O German Albert! who abandonest
- Father and father-in-law of France’s Pest
- Opposite, represented at the window
- There the high glory of the Roman Prince
- Displayed moreo’er the adamantine pavement
- My fellow-citizens near unto Colle
- Peace I desired with God at the extreme
- O Ugolin de’ Fantoli, secure
- That goodness infinite and ineffable
- Every substantial form, that segregate
- Supposing, then, that from necessity
- The noble virtue Beatrice understands
- When geomancers their Fortuna Major
- Between Siestri and Chiaveri descends
- But if Douay and Ghent, and Lille and Bruges
- Polymnestor who murdered Polydorus
- Verily oftentimes do things appear
- For the Barbagia of Sardinia
- Therefore they separate, exclaiming, ‘Sodom!’
- Now since the universal atmosphere
- So upon that celestial chariot
- In attitude still royally majestic
- Confusion and dismay together mingled
- Thus Beatrice; and I, who at the feet
- Transfigured thus the holy edifice
- And I: “As by a signet is the wax
- In front of them the Tigris and Euphrates
- Paradiso
- One summit of Parnassus hitherto
- To represent transhumanise in words
- The con-created and perpetual thirst
- So likewise this Intelligence diffuses
- Between two viands, equally removed
- Buried remaineth, brother, this decree
- Whate’er from this immediately distils
- For this the Evangel and the mighty Doctors
- But regally his hard determination
- After the people mendicant increased
- Incoronated with a second crown
- Bonaventura of Bagnoregio’s life
- Nathan the seer, and metropolitan
- Florence, within the ancient boundary
- Already had Caponsacco to the Market
- Thou shalt abandon everything beloved
- So recognized shall his magnificence
- And at the name of the great Maccabee
- Thereafter in the M of the fifth word
- Therefore into the justice sempiternal
- And he of Portugal and he of Norway
- O thou predestination, how remote
- There is the Rose in which the Word Divine
- Whatever melody most sweetly soundeth
- Thus did the circulated melody
- And the Compassionate, who piloted
- And I: “The ancient Scriptures and the new
- The holy purpose of the Eagle of Christ
- With the forementioned vivid consciousness
- For nevermore result of reasoning
- O joy! O gladness inexpressible!
- That Providence, which here distributeth
- Thereafterward proceeded forth his words
- Fidelity and innocence are found
- Ere January be unwintered wholly
- Perpetually hosanna warbles forth
- Order was con-created and constructed
- And as advances bright exceedingly
- Into the yellow of the Rose Eternal
- So likewise that pacific oriflamme
- Unto the canticle divine responded
- As the geometrician, who endeavours
- Appendix
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
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