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Queste parole di colore oscuro | 10 | These words, dark in hue, I saw inscribed | |||||
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vid' ïo scritte al sommo d'una porta; | 11 | over an archway. And then I said: | |||||
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per ch'io: "Maestro, il senso lor m'è duro." | 12 | 'Master, for me their meaning is hard.' | |||||
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Ed elli a me, come persona accorta: | 13 | And he, as one who understood: | |||||
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"Qui si convien lasciare ogne sospetto; | 14 | 'Here you must banish all distrust, | |||||
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ogne viltà convien che qui sia morta. | 15 | here must all cowardice be slain. | |||||
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Noi siam venuti al loco ov' i' t'ho detto | 16 | 'We have come to where I said | |||||
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che tu vedrai le genti dolorose | 17 | you would see the miserable sinners | |||||
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c'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto." | 18 | who have lost the good of the intellect.' | |||||
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