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con ser Brunetto, e dimando chi sono 101 with ser Brunetto, asking who, of his companions,
 
li suoi compagni più noti e più sommi. 102 are most eminent, most worthy to be known.
 
    Ed elli a me: "Saper d'alcuno è buono; 103 And he: "Some of them it is good to know.
 
de li altri fia laudabile tacerci, 104 Others it is better not to mention,
 
ché 'l tempo saria corto a tanto suono. 105 for the time would be too short for so much talk.
 
    In somma sappi che tutti fur cherci 106 'In sum, note that all of them were clerics
 
e litterati grandi e di gran fama, 107 or great and famous scholars befouled
 
d'un peccato medesmo al mondo lerci. 108 in the world above by a single sin.
 
    Priscian sen va con quella turba grama, 109 'Priscian goes with that wretched crowd,
 
e Francesco d'Accorso anche; e vedervi, 110 and Francesco d'Accorso too. And, had you had
 
s'avessi avuto di tal tigna brama, 111 a hankering for such filth, you might have seen
 
    colui potei che dal servo de' servi 112 'the one transferred by the Servant of Servants
 
fu trasmutato d'Arno in Bacchiglione, 113 from the Arno to the Bacchiglione,
 
dove lasciò li mal protesi nervi. 114 where he left his sin-stretched sinews.
 
    Di più direi; ma 'l venire e 'l sermone 115 'I would say more, but I cannot stay,

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