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si torse sotto il peso che li 'mpaccia, 75 beneath the load that weighed him down,
 
    e videmi e conobbemi e chiamava, 76 saw me and knew me and called out,
 
tenendo li occhi con fatica fisi 77 with difficulty keeping his eyes fixed on me,
 
a me che tutto chin con loro andava. 78 as I, all hunched, trudged on beside them.
 
    "Oh!" diss'io lui, "non se' tu Oderisi, 79 'Oh,' I said to him, 'are you not Oderisi,
 
l'onor d'Agobbio e l'onor di quell' arte 80 the honor of Gubbio and of that art
 
ch'alluminar chiamata è in Parisi?" 81 which they in Paris call illumination?'
 
    "Frate," diss' elli, "più ridon le carte 82 'Brother,' he said, 'the pages smile brighter
 
che pennelleggia Franco Bolognese; 83 from the brush of Franco of Bologna.
 
l'onore è tutto or suo, e mio in parte. 84 The honor is all his now--and only mine in part.
 
    Ben non sare' io stato sì cortese 85 'Indeed, I hardly would have been so courteous
 
mentre ch'io vissi, per lo gran disio 86 while I still lived--an overwhelming need
 
de l'eccellenza ove mio core intese. 87 to excel at any cost held fast my heart.
 
    Di tal superbia qui si paga il fio; 88 'For such pride here we pay our debt.
 
e ancor non sarei qui, se non fosse 89 I would not be here yet, except, while living,

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