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Excerpt: The Divine Comedy, Volume One, Hell [The Inferno] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton.

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...Contents INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................7 AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE DIVINE COMEDY .......................................................... 14 HELL .............................................................................. 16 CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the...

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...The Divine Comedy Volume 1 Hell [The Inferno] by Dante Aligheri Translated by Charles Eliot Norton A PENN ST... ... Charles Eliot Norton A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Divine Comedy, Volume One, Hell [The Inferno] by Dante Aligheri, trans ... ...he Inferno] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...are on earth from their fatigues, and I alone was preparing to sustain the war alike of the road, and of the woe which the mind that erreth not shall ... ...rough me is the way into eternal woe; through me is the way among the lost people. Justice moved my lofty maker: the divine Power, the supreme Wisdom ... ...ve come to the place where I have told thee that thou shalt see the woeful people, who have lost the good of the understanding.” And when he had put h... ...nder, among the gluttonous Germans, the beaver settles himself to make his war, 3 so lay that worst of beasts upon the rim that closes in the sand wi... ...upport the at- tempt to expel the French from Sicily, which began with the Sicilian Vespers in 1282. 70 The Divine Comedy – Hell dens the world, tram...

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