Dante and Islam by Ziolkowski Jan M.;

Author:Ziolkowski, Jan M.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fordham University Press

Islam in Dante’s Italy

Mendicants and Muslims in Dante’s Florence

JOHN TOLAN

E poi che, per la sete del martiro,

ne la presenza del Soldan superba

predicò Cristo e li altri che ’l seguiro,

e per trovare a conversione acerba

troppo la gente e per son stare indarno,

redissi al frutto de l’italica erba,

nel crudo sasso intra Tevero e Arno

da Cristo prese l’ultimo sigillo,

che le sue membra due anni portarno.

And when, in his thirst for martyrdom,

in the proud presence of the sultan

he preached Christ and those who followed Him,

but found the people too unripe for conversion,

so as not to stay in vain he returned

to the harvest of Italian fields,

where on the harsh rock between Tiber and Arno

he received from Christ the last seal,

which his limbs bore for two years.

—(Par. 11.100–108)

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