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But it was said: 〃To the right hand come with us
  Along the bank; and ye shall find a pass
  Possible for living person to ascend。

And were I not impeded by the stone;
  Which this proud neck of mine doth subjugate;
  Whence I am forced to hold my visage down;

Him; who still lives and does not name himself;
  Would I regard; to see if I may know him
  And make him piteous unto this burden。

A Latian was I; and born of a great Tuscan;
  Guglielmo Aldobrandeschi was my father;
  I know not if his name were ever with you。

The ancient blood and deeds of gallantry
  Of my progenitors so arrogant made me
  That; thinking not upon the common mother;

All men I held in scorn to such extent
  I died therefor; as know the Sienese;
  And every child in Campagnatico。

I am Omberto; and not to me alone
  Has pride done harm; but all my kith and kin
  Has with it dragged into adversity。

And here must I this burden bear for it
  Till God be satisfied; since I did not
  Among the living; here among the dead。〃

Listening I downward bent my countenance;
  And one of them; not this one who was speaking;
  Twisted himself beneath the weight that cramps him;

And looked at me; and knew me; and called out;
  Keeping his eyes laboriously fixed
  On me; who all bowed down was going with them。

〃O;〃 asked I him; 〃art thou not Oderisi;
  Agobbio's honour; and honour of that art
  Which is in Paris called illuminating?〃

〃Brother;〃 said he; 〃more laughing are the leaves
  Touched by the brush of Franco Bolognese;
  All his the honour now; and mine in part。

In sooth I had not been so courteous
  While I was living; for the great desire
  Of excellence; on which my heart was bent。

Here of such pride is paid the forfeiture;
  And yet I should not be here; were it not
  That; having power to sin; I turned to God。

O thou vain glory of the human powers;
  How little green upon thy summit lingers;
  If't be not followed by an age of grossness!

In painting Cimabue thought that he
  Should hold the field; now Giotto has the cry;
  So that the other's fame is growing dim。

So has one Guido from the other taken
  The glory of our tongue; and he perchance
  Is born; who from the nest shall chase them both。

Naught is this mundane rumour but a breath
  Of wind; that comes now this way and now that;
  And changes name; because it changes side。

What fame shalt thou have more; if old peel off
  From thee thy flesh; than if thou hadst been dead
  Before thou left the 'pappo' and the 'dindi;'

Ere pass a thousand years? which is a shorter
  Space to the eterne; than twinkling of an eye
  Unto the circle that in heaven wheels slowest。

With him; who takes so little of the road
  In front of me; all Tuscany resounded;
  And now he scarce is lisped of in Siena;

Where he was lord; what time was overthrown
  The Florentine delirium; that superb
  Was at that day as now 'tis prostitute。

Your reputation is the colour of grass
  Which comes and goes; and that discolours it
  By which it issues green from out the earth。〃

And I: 〃Thy true speech fills my heart with good
  Humility; and great tumour thou assuagest;
  But who is he; of whom just now thou spakest?〃

〃That;〃 he replied; 〃is Provenzan Salvani;
  And he is here because he had presumed
  To bring Siena all into his hands。

He has gone thus; and goeth without rest
  E'er since he died; such money renders back
  In payment he who is on earth too daring。〃

And I: 〃If every spirit who awaits
  The verge of life before that he repent;
  Remains below there and ascends not hither;

(Unless good orison shall him bestead;)
  Until as much time as he lived be passed;
  How was the coming granted him in largess?〃

〃When he in greatest splendour lived;〃 said he;
  〃Freely upon the Campo of Siena;
  All shame being laid aside; he placed himself;

And there to draw his friend from the duress
  Which in the prison…house of Charles he suffered;
  He brought himself to tremble in each vein。


I say no more; and know that I speak darkly;
  Yet little time shall pass before thy neighbours
  Will so demean themselves that thou canst gloss it。

This action has released him from those confines。〃



Purgatorio: Canto XII


Abreast; like oxen going in a yoke;
  I with that heavy…laden soul went on;
  As long as the sweet pedagogue permitted;

But when he said; 〃Leave him; and onward pass;
  For here 'tis good that with the sail and oars;
  As much as may be; each push on his barque;〃

Upright; as walking wills it; I redressed
  My person; notwithstanding that my thoughts
  Remained within me downcast and abashed。

I had moved on; and followed willingly
  The footsteps of my Master; and we both
  Already showed how light of foot we were;

When unto me he said: 〃Cast down thine eyes;
  'Twere well for thee; to alleviate the way;
  To look upon the bed beneath thy feet。〃

As; that some memory may exist of them;
  Above the buried dead their tombs in earth
  Bear sculptured on them what they were before;

Whence often there we weep for them afresh;
  From pricking of remembrance; which alone
  To the compassionate doth set its spur;

So saw I there; but of a better semblance
  In point of artifice; with figures covered
  Whate'er as pathway from the mount projects。

I saw that one who was created noble
  More than all other creatures; down from heaven
  Flaming with lightnings fall upon one side。

I saw Briareus smitten by the dart
  Celestial; lying on the other side;
  Heavy upon the earth by mortal frost。

I saw Thymbraeus; Pallas saw; and Mars;
  Still clad in armour round about their father;
  Gaze at the scattered members of the giants。

I saw; at foot of his great labour; Nimrod;
  As if bewildered; looking at the people
  Who had been proud with him in Sennaar。

O Niobe! with what afflicted eyes
  Thee I beheld upon the pathway traced;
  Between thy seven and seven children slain!

O Saul! how fallen upon thy proper sword
  Didst thou appear there lifeless in Gilboa;
  That felt thereafter neither rain nor dew!

O mad Arachne! so I thee beheld
  E'en then half spider; sad upon the shreds
  Of fabric wrought in evil hour for thee!

O Rehoboam! no more seems to threaten
  Thine image there; but full of consternation
  A chariot bears it off; when none pursues!

Displayed moreo'er the adamantine pavement
  How unto his own mother made Alcmaeon
  Costly appear the luckless ornament;

Displayed how his own sons did throw themselves
  Upon Sennacherib within the temple;
  And how; he being dead; they left him there;

Displayed the ruin and the cruel carnage
  That Tomyris wrought; when she to Cyrus said;
  〃Blood didst thou thirst for; and with blood I glut thee!〃

Displayed how routed fled the Assyrians
  After that Holofernes had been slain;
  And likewise the remainder of that slaughter。

I saw there Troy in ashes and in caverns;
  O Ilion! thee; how abject and debased;
  Displayed the image that is there discerned!

Whoe'er of pencil master was or stile;
  That could portray the shades and traits which there
  Would cause each subtile genius to admire?

Dead seemed the dead; the living seemed alive;
  Better than I saw not who saw the truth;
  All that I trod upon while bowed I went。

Now wax ye proud; and on with looks uplifted;
  Ye sons of Eve; and bow not down your faces
  So that ye may behold your evil ways!

More of the mount by us was now encompassed;
  And far more spent the circuit of the sun;
  Than had the mind preoccupied imagined;

When he; who ever watchful in advance
  Was going on; began: 〃Lift up thy head;
  'Tis no more time to go thus meditating。

Lo there an Angel who is making haste
  To come towards us; lo; returning is
  From service of the day the sixth handmaiden。

With reverence thine acts and looks adorn;
  So that he may delight to speed us upward;
  Think that this day will never dawn again。〃

I was familiar with his admonition
  Ever to lose no time; so on this theme
  He could not unto me speak covertly。

Towards us came the being beautiful
  Vested in white; and in his countenance
  Such as appears the tremulous morning star。

His arms he opened; and opened then his wings;
  〃Come;〃 said he; 〃near at hand here are the steps;
  And easy from henceforth is the ascent。〃

At this announcement few are they who come!
  O human creatures; born to soar aloft;
  Why fall ye thus before a little wind?

He led us on to where the rock was cleft;
  There smote upon my forehead with his wings;
  Then a safe passage promised unto me。

As on the right hand; to ascend the mount
  Where seated is the church that lordeth it
  O'er the well…guided; above Rubaconte;

The bold abruptness of the ascent is broken
  By stairways that were made there in the age
  When still were safe the ledger and the stave;

E'en thus attempered is the bank which falls
  Sheer downward from the second circle there;
  But on this; side and that the high rock graze。

As we were turning thitherward our persons;
  〃Beati pauperes spiritu;〃 voices
  Sang in such wise that speech could tell it not。

Ah me! how different are these entrances
  From the Infernal! for with anthems here
  One enters; and below with wild laments。

We now were hunting up the sacred stairs;
  And it appeared to me by far more easy
  Than on the plain it had appeared before。

Whence I: 〃My Master; say; what heavy thing
  Has been uplifted from me; so that hardly
  Aught of fatigue is felt by me in walking?〃

He answered: 〃When the P's which have remained
  Still on thy face almost obliterate
  Shall wholly; as the first is; be erased;

Thy feet will be so vanquished by good will;
  That not alone they shall not feel fatigue;
  But urging up will be to them delight。〃

Then did I even as they do who are going
  With something on the head to them unknown;
  Unless the signs of others make them doubt;

Wherefore the hand to ascertain is helpful;
  And seeks and finds; and doth fulfill the office
  Which cannot be accomplished by the sight;

And with the fingers of the right hand spre

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