The Divine Comedy 1: Inferno by Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick
Author:Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Classics, Poetry
ISBN: 9780141916446
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2006-03-30T00:00:00+00:00
CANTO 24
1 In quella parte del giovanetto anno
che ’l sole i crin sotto l’Aquario tempra
e già le notti al mezzo dì sen vanno,
4 quando la brina in su la terra assempra
l’imagine di sua sorella bianca,
ma poco dura a la sua penna tempra,
7 lo villanello a cui la roba manca
si leva e guarda, e vede la campagna
biancheggiar tutta; ond’ ei si batte l’anca,
10 ritorna in casa, e qua e là si lagna,
come ’l tapin che non sa che si faccia;
poi riede, e la speranza ringavagna,
13 veggendo ’l mondo aver cangiata faccia
in poco d’ora; e prende suo vincastro
e fuor le pecorelle a pascer caccia:
16 così mi fece sbigottir lo mastro
quand’ io li vidi sì turbar la fronte,
e così tosto al mal giunse lo ’mpiastro;
19 ché, come noi venimmo al guasto ponte,
lo duca a me si volse con quel piglio
dolce ch’io vidi prima a piè del monte.
22 Le braccia aperse, dopo alcun consiglio
eletto seco riguardando prima
ben la ruina, e diedemi di piglio.
25 E come quei ch’adopera ed estima,
che sempre par che ’nnanzi si proveggia,
così, levando me sù ver’ la cima
1* In that still baby-boyish time of year,
when sunlight chills its curls beneath Aquarius,
when nights grow shorter equalling the day,
4 and hoar frost writes fair copies on the ground
to mimic in design its snowy sister
(its pen, though, not chill-tempered to endure),
7 the peasant in this season, when supplies
run short, rolls from his bed, looks out and sees
the fields are glistening white, so slaps his thigh,
10 goes in, then grumbles up and down, as though
(poor sod) he couldn’t find a thing to do,
till, out once more, he fills his wicker trug,
13 with hope, at least. No time at all! The features
of the world transform. He grabs his goad.
Outdoors, he prods his lambs to open pasture.
16 In some such way, I too was first dismayed
to see distress so written on my leader’s brow.
But he, as quickly, plastered up the hurt.
19 And so, arriving at the ruined bridge,
my leader turned that sour-sweet look on me
that first he’d shown me at the mountain foot.
22 He spread his arms, then, having in his thought
surveyed the landslip, and (a man of sense)
assessed it well, he took me in his grip.
25 Then, always with adjustments in his moves
(so that, it seemed, he foresaw everything),
in hauling me towards the pinnacle
28 d’un ronchione, avvisava un’altra scheggia
dicendo: ‘Sovra quella poi t’aggrappa;
ma tenta pria s’è tal ch’ella ti reggia.’
31 Non era via da vestito di cappa,
ché noi a pena, ei lieve e io sospinto,
potavam sù montar di chiappa in chiappa.
34 E se non fosse che da quel precinto
più che da l’altro era la costa corta,
non so di lui, ma io sarei ben vinto;
37 ma, perché Malebolge inver’ la porta
del bassissimo pozzo tutta pende,
lo sito di ciascuna valle porta
40 che l’una costa surge e l’altra scende.
Noi pur venimmo al fine in su la punta
onde l’ultima pietra si scoscende.
43 La lena m’era del polmon sì munta
quand’ io fui sù, ch’i’ non potea più oltre, anzi
m’assisi ne la prima giunta.
46 ‘Omai convien che tu così ti spoltre,’
disse ’l
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