![]() ![]() The time was at the beginning of the morning, and the sun was mounting up with all those stars, that were with him when Divine Love first moved all delightful things, so that the hour of day, and the sweet season, gave me fair hopes of that creature with the bright pelt. It would not turn from before my face, and so obstructed my path, that I often turned, in order to return. And, behold, almost at the start of the slope, a light swift leopard with spotted coat. And as a man, who, with panting breath, has escaped from the deep sea to the shore, turns back towards the perilous waters and stares, so my mind, still fugitive, turned back to see that pass again, that no living person ever left.Īfter I had rested my tired body a while, I made my way again over empty ground, always bearing upwards to the right. Then the fear, that had settled in the lake of my heart, through the night that I had spent so miserably, became a little calmer. ![]() But when I reached the foot of a hill, where the valley, that had pierced my heart with fear, came to an end, I looked up and saw its shoulders brightened with the rays of that sun that leads men rightly on every road. I was so full of sleep, at that point where I abandoned the true way. It is scarcely less bitter than death: but, in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there. It is a hard thing to speak of, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood was, so that thinking of it recreates the fear. In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. Inferno Canto I:1-60 The Dark Wood and the Hill Inferno Canto VII:100-130 The Styx: They view the Fifth Circle.Inferno Canto VII:67-99 Virgil speaks about Fortune.Inferno Canto VII:40-66 The avaricious and prodigal churchmen.Inferno Canto VII:1-39 The Fourth Circle: Plutus: The Avaricious.Inferno Canto VI:94-115 Virgil speaks of The Day of Judgement.Inferno Canto VI:64-93 Ciacco’s prophecy concerning Florence.Inferno Canto VI:34-63 Ciacco, the glutton.Inferno Canto VI:1-33 The Third Circle: Cerberus: The Gluttonous.Inferno Canto V:70-142 Paolo and Francesca.Inferno Canto V:52-72 Virgil names the sinners.Inferno Canto V:1-51 The Second Circle:Minos:The Carnal Sinners.Inferno Canto IV:130-151 The Philosophers and other great spirits.Inferno Canto IV:106-129 The Heroes and Heroines.Inferno Canto IV:64-105 The Great Poets.Inferno Canto IV:1-63 The First Circle: Limbo:The Heathens.Inferno Canto III:100-136 The souls by the shore of Acheron.Inferno Canto III:70-99 Charon, the ferryman of the Acheron.Inferno Canto III:58-69 Their punishment.Inferno Canto III:22-69 The spiritually neutral.Inferno Canto III:1-21 The Gate of Hell.Inferno Canto II:121-142 Virgil strengthens Dante’s will.Inferno Canto II:94-120 The Virgin sends Lucia to Beatrice.Inferno Canto II:43-93 Virgil explains his mission:Beatrice.Inferno Canto II:1-42 Dante’s doubts as to his fitness for the journey.Inferno Canto I:112-136 Virgil will be his guide through Hell.Inferno Canto I:100-111 The salvation of Italy.Inferno Canto I:61-99 Dante meets Virgil.Inferno Canto I:1-60 The Dark Wood and the Hill.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2000, All Rights Reserved.
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