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Romagna thine is not and never has been
  Without war in the bosom of its tyrants;
  But open war I none have left there now。

Ravenna stands as it long years has stood;
  The Eagle of Polenta there is brooding;
  So that she covers Cervia with her vans。

The city which once made the long resistance;
  And of the French a sanguinary heap;
  Beneath the Green Paws finds itself again;

Verrucchio's ancient Mastiff and the new;
  Who made such bad disposal of Montagna;
  Where they are wont make wimbles of their teeth。

The cities of Lamone and Santerno
  Governs the Lioncel of the white lair;
  Who changes sides 'twixt summer…time and winter;

And that of which the Savio bathes the flank;
  Even as it lies between the plain and mountain;
  Lives between tyranny and a free state。

Now I entreat thee tell us who thou art;
  Be not more stubborn than the rest have been;
  So may thy name hold front there in the world。〃

After the fire a little more had roared
  In its own fashion; the sharp point it moved
  This way and that; and then gave forth such breath:

〃If I believed that my reply were made
  To one who to the world would e'er return;
  This flame without more flickering would stand still;

But inasmuch as never from this depth
  Did any one return; if I hear true;
  Without the fear of infamy I answer;

I was a man of arms; then Cordelier;
  Believing thus begirt to make amends;
  And truly my belief had been fulfilled

But for the High Priest; whom may ill betide;
  Who put me back into my former sins;
  And how and wherefore I will have thee hear。

While I was still the form of bone and pulp
  My mother gave to me; the deeds I did
  Were not those of a lion; but a fox。

The machinations and the covert ways
  I knew them all; and practised so their craft;
  That to the ends of earth the sound went forth。

When now unto that portion of mine age
  I saw myself arrived; when each one ought
  To lower the sails; and coil away the ropes;

That which before had pleased me then displeased me;
  And penitent and confessing I surrendered;
  Ah woe is me! and it would have bestead me;

The Leader of the modern Pharisees
  Having a war near unto Lateran;
  And not with Saracens nor with the Jews;

For each one of his enemies was Christian;
  And none of them had been to conquer Acre;
  Nor merchandising in the Sultan's land;

Nor the high office; nor the sacred orders;
  In him regarded; nor in me that cord
  Which used to make those girt with it more meagre;

But even as Constantine sought out Sylvester
  To cure his leprosy; within Soracte;
  So this one sought me out as an adept

To cure him of the fever of his pride。
  Counsel he asked of me; and I was silent;
  Because his words appeared inebriate。

And then he said: 'Be not thy heart afraid;
  Henceforth I thee absolve; and thou instruct me
  How to raze Palestrina to the ground。

Heaven have I power to lock and to unlock;
  As thou dost know; therefore the keys are two;
  The which my predecessor held not dear。'

Then urged me on his weighty arguments
  There; where my silence was the worst advice;
  And said I: 'Father; since thou washest me

Of that sin into which I now must fall;
  The promise long with the fulfilment short
  Will make thee triumph in thy lofty seat。'

Francis came afterward; when I was dead;
  For me; but one of the black Cherubim
  Said to him: 'Take him not; do me no wrong;

He must come down among my servitors;
  Because he gave the fraudulent advice
  From which time forth I have been at his hair;

For who repents not cannot be absolved;
  Nor can one both repent and will at once;
  Because of the contradiction which consents not。'

O miserable me! how I did shudder
  When he seized on me; saying: 'Peradventure
  Thou didst not think that I was a logician!'

He bore me unto Minos; who entwined
  Eight times his tail about his stubborn back;
  And after he had bitten it in great rage;

Said: 'Of the thievish fire a culprit this;'
  Wherefore; here where thou seest; am I lost;
  And vested thus in going I bemoan me。〃

When it had thus completed its recital;
  The flame departed uttering lamentations;
  Writhing and flapping its sharp…pointed horn。

Onward we passed; both I and my Conductor;
  Up o'er the crag above another arch;
  Which the moat covers; where is paid the fee

By those who; sowing discord; win their burden。



Inferno: Canto XXVIII


Who ever could; e'en with untrammelled words;
  Tell of the blood and of the wounds in full
  Which now I saw; by many times narrating?

Each tongue would for a certainty fall short
  By reason of our speech and memory;
  That have small room to comprehend so much。

If were again assembled all the people
  Which formerly upon the fateful land
  Of Puglia were lamenting for their blood

Shed by the Romans and the lingering war
  That of the rings made such illustrious spoils;
  As Livy has recorded; who errs not;

With those who felt the agony of blows
  By making counterstand to Robert Guiscard;
  And all the rest; whose bones are gathered still

At Ceperano; where a renegade
  Was each Apulian; and at Tagliacozzo;
  Where without arms the old Alardo conquered;

And one his limb transpierced; and one lopped off;
  Should show; it would be nothing to compare
  With the disgusting mode of the ninth Bolgia。

A cask by losing centre…piece or cant
  Was never shattered so; as I saw one
  Rent from the chin to where one breaketh wind。

Between his legs were hanging down his entrails;
  His heart was visible; and the dismal sack
  That maketh excrement of what is eaten。

While I was all absorbed in seeing him;
  He looked at me; and opened with his hands
  His bosom; saying: 〃See now how I rend me;

How mutilated; see; is Mahomet;
  In front of me doth Ali weeping go;
  Cleft in the face from forelock unto chin;

And all the others whom thou here beholdest;
  Disseminators of scandal and of schism
  While living were; and therefore are cleft thus。

A devil is behind here; who doth cleave us
  Thus cruelly; unto the falchion's edge
  Putting again each one of all this ream;

When we have gone around the doleful road;
  By reason that our wounds are closed again
  Ere any one in front of him repass。

But who art thou; that musest on the crag;
  Perchance to postpone going to the pain
  That is adjudged upon thine accusations?〃

〃Nor death hath reached him yet; nor guilt doth bring him;〃
  My Master made reply; 〃to be tormented;
  But to procure him full experience;

Me; who am dead; behoves it to conduct him
  Down here through Hell; from circle unto circle;
  And this is true as that I speak to thee。〃

More than a hundred were there when they heard him;
  Who in the moat stood still to look at me;
  Through wonderment oblivious of their torture。

〃Now say to Fra Dolcino; then; to arm him;
  Thou; who perhaps wilt shortly see the sun;
  If soon he wish not here to follow me;

So with provisions; that no stress of snow
  May give the victory to the Novarese;
  Which otherwise to gain would not be easy。〃

After one foot to go away he lifted;
  This word did Mahomet say unto me;
  Then to depart upon the ground he stretched it。

Another one; who had his throat pierced through;
  And nose cut off close underneath the brows;
  And had no longer but a single ear;

Staying to look in wonder with the others;
  Before the others did his gullet open;
  Which outwardly was red in every part;

And said: 〃O thou; whom guilt doth not condemn;
  And whom I once saw up in Latian land;
  Unless too great similitude deceive me;

Call to remembrance Pier da Medicina;
  If e'er thou see again the lovely plain
  That from Vercelli slopes to Marcabo;

And make it known to the best two of Fano;
  To Messer Guido and Angiolello likewise;
  That if foreseeing here be not in vain;

Cast over from their vessel shall they be;
  And drowned near unto the Cattolica;
  By the betrayal of a tyrant fell。

Between the isles of Cyprus and Majorca
  Neptune ne'er yet beheld so great a crime;
  Neither of pirates nor Argolic people。

That traitor; who sees only with one eye;
  And holds the land; which some one here with me
  Would fain be fasting from the vision of;

Will make them come unto a parley with him;
  Then will do so; that to Focara's wind
  They will not stand in need of vow or prayer。〃

And I to him: 〃Show to me and declare;
  If thou wouldst have me bear up news of thee;
  Who is this person of the bitter vision。〃

Then did he lay his hand upon the jaw
  Of one of his companions; and his mouth
  Oped; crying: 〃This is he; and he speaks not。

This one; being banished; every doubt submerged
  In Caesar by affirming the forearmed
  Always with detriment allowed delay。〃

O how bewildered unto me appeared;
  With tongue asunder in his windpipe slit;
  Curio; who in speaking was so bold!

And one; who both his hands dissevered had;
  The stumps uplifting through the murky air;
  So that the blood made horrible his face;

Cried out: 〃Thou shalt remember Mosca also;
  Who said; alas

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