Dante in Love by Harriet Rubin

Author:Harriet Rubin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Published: 2004-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Part III

Purgatorio (1308-12)

…e tanto d’uno in altro vaneggiai,

che li occhi per vaghezza ricopersi,

e ’l pensamento in sogno trasmutati.

…E come questa imagine rompeo

sé per sé stessa, a guisa d’una bulla

cui manca l’acqua sotto qual si feo….

…così l’imaginar mio cadde giuso…

…I was so drawn from random thought

to thought that, wandering in mind, I shut

my eyes, transforming thought on thought to dream

…and when this image shattered of itself

just like a bubble that has lost the water

beneath which it was formed

…so my imagination fell away

(Purgatorio 18.143–45; 17.31–34, 43; trans. Mandelbaum)

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