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In su l'estremità d'un'alta ripa |
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At the brink of a high bank formed |
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che facevan gran pietre rotte in cerchio, |
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by broken boulders in a circle |
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venimmo sopra più crudele stipa; |
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we stopped above a still more grievous throng. |
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e quivi, per l'orribile soperchio |
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Here, the unbearable foul stench |
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del puzzo che 'l profondo abisso gitta, |
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belched from that bottomless abyss |
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ci raccostammo, in dietro, ad un coperchio |
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made us draw back behind the slab |
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d'un grand' avello, ov' io vidi una scritta |
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of an imposing tomb, on which I saw inscribed |
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che dicea: "Anastasio papa guardo, |
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the words: 'I hold Pope Anastasius: |
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lo qual trasse Fotin de la via dritta." |
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Photinus drew him from the right and proper path.' |
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"Lo nostro scender conviene esser tardo, |
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'We must delay descending so our sense, |
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sì che s'ausi un poco in prima il senso |
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inured to that vile stench, |
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al tristo fiato; e poi no i fia riguardo." |
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no longer heeds it.' |
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Così 'l maestro; e io "Alcun compenso," |
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So spoke the master. I replied: 'I know |
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dissi lui, "trova che 'l tempo non passi |
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you'll find a useful way to pass this time.' |
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perduto." Ed elli: "Vedi ch'a ciò penso." |
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And he: 'You'll see that is my plan.' |