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    "Tra ' due liti d'Italia surgon sassi, 106 'Between Italy's two shores
 
e non molto distanti a la tua patria, 107 and not far distant from your homeland,
 
tanto che ' troni assai suonan più bassi, 108 crags rise so high that thunder rolls below them.
 
    e fanno un gibbo che si chiama Catria, 109 'They form a ridge called Càtria.
 
di sotto al quale è consecrato un ermo, 110 A consecrated monastery stands below,
 
che suole esser disposto a sola latria." 111 once dedicated wholly to God's worship.'
 
    Così ricominciommi il terzo sermo; 112 Thus a third time he began,
 
e poi, continüando, disse: "Quivi 113 addressing me, and then went on:
 
al servigio di Dio mi fe' sì fermo, 114 'There I became so constant serving God,
 
    che pur con cibi di liquor d'ulivi 115 'my simple fare seasoned with olive oil alone,
 
lievemente passava caldi e geli, 116 that I readily endured the heat and frost,
 
contento ne' pensier contemplativi. 117 content in contemplation.
 
    Render solea quel chiostro a questi cieli 118 'That cloister which used to yield abundant harvest
 
fertilemente; e ora è fatto vano, 119 to these heavens now is barren,
 
sì che tosto convien che si riveli. 120 but soon its barrenness must be revealed.
 
    In quel loco fu' io Pietro Damiano, 121 'In that place I was known as Peter Damian,
 
e Pietro Peccator fu' ne la casa 122 but Peter the Sinner in the House
 
di Nostra Donna in sul lito adriano. 123 of Our Lady on the Adriatic shore.
 
    Poca vita mortal m'era rimasa, 124 'Little of mortal life on earth was left to me
 
quando fui chiesto e tratto a quel cappello, 125 when I was singled out and dragged to that red hat
 
che pur di male in peggio si travasa. 126 which now is passed from bad to worse.

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