DANTE I INFERNO CANTO We find ourselves on March 25, 1300, Holy Thursday, the first year of

jubilee of Christianity. Dante wants to show us how his

personal life and the universal intersect. The entire poem is
introduced by this by this song. Dante uses the verse
hendecasyllable and the rhyme scheme is ABA BCB CDC

Dante (character) begins to speak and says 'in the journey of

Midway upon the journey of our life our life" precisely because his experience multiplies and
I found myself in a dark forest, becomes for everyone. He finds himself in the dark forest, the way of
for the right way had been lost. it is a shame and it is dark since there is a contrast with the Light
of the divinity.
Ah, how hard it is to say what era it was.
In the second tercet, the narrator Dante speaks and reflects on how
this wild and harsh and strong jungle to tell what happened to him, as just thinking about it creates him
that in thought renews the fear! fear.
So bitter that it is hardly more than death;
His condition of sin is so tormented that it
But to speak of the good that I found in you,
death is a little more cruel. But to get to the positive things
I will speak of other things that I have seen.
He who has seen must first tell the others.
Dante is sleepy because the sinner is represented in a
I do not know well how I entered you, moment of drowsiness and consciousness is influenced by
I was so full of sleep at that point too bad.
that I abandoned the true path.

But when I reached the foot of a hill,

where that valley ended Dante arrives at the foot of a hill after crossing the
I was apprehensive, my heart stricken, forest. The shoulders of the hill were illuminated by the Sun, and Dante
a planet that leads
I looked up and saw his shoulders. straight for others through every street.
already dressed in the rays of the planet
he leads straight to others through every street. 18
According to medieval medicine, inside the heart there was
a place from which the blood flowed and according to Dante that is
Then fear was a little quiet, the point from which feelings originate.
that in the lake of the heart had lasted for me
the night I spent with such pity.

And like those who with labored breath, Here is presented the first similarity of the poem and resumes
came out of the sea onto the shore, an image that will often recur, namely that of
he turns to the perilous water and gazes, shipwreck as loss.
thus my spirit that still fled,
he turned back to look at the past
that never left any living person.
Dante, after leaving the forest, looks around and
Then, having rested my weary body a little, the climb of the hill begins. He wants to go out in a simple way
taken back via the deserted beach, from his state of sin to reach God.
yes, the firm foot was always the lowest.
"BEHOLD" is a typical expression used in the Gospel,
And here, almost at the beginning of the ascent,
model of inspiration for Dante.
a light and very quick leopards, At this point, blocking their way is a leopon, a hybrid.
the speckled skin was covered; between the leopard and the lioness.

and it did not depart before my face, This leopard that prevents him from moving forward symbolizes the
it hindered my path so much, lust, which stops a man and prevents him from rising towards
I went to return multiple times. God.
 In his work, Dante never tells us whether it is morning or evening.
It was from the beginning of the morning, but it uses many astronomical references.
And the sun rose up with those stars The sun is rising along with the stars that were with God.
they were with him when divine love when he created everything.

moves of the first beautiful things;

yes that it was a reason to hope for good
from that fair to the gaetta skin 42
After the leopard, on the way, he meets a lion. The lion
the hour of time and the sweet season; represents pride, another of the sins that hinder
but it didn't scare me for man to reach God.
the sight that appeared to me of a lion. The lion's attitude shows all its pride because
walk with your head held high.
These seemed to come against me The rhyme "venisse" and "tremesse" is a typically
with a high head and with furious hunger, Sicilian.
indeed, it seemed that the air was trembling.
At this point, the last of the three fairs arrives, a she-wolf that
And a magnifying glass, which of all desires represents greed. In its thinness, it seemed full
he seemed frail in his thinness, of his desire for money and earthly goods.
and many people made their lives miserable,
Greed is a sin that has caused suffering to many people.
this brings me a lot of gravity And it is with the she-wolf that Dante loses hope of arriving at the
with the fear that left at his sight, glue.
that I lost hope of greatness.

And what is it that gladly purchases, Dante uses a simile to express his state
And the time comes when it makes one lose it, in spirit, in fact he feels like someone who accumulates
that in all his thoughts he weeps and becomes sad, wealth for a lifetime and when the moment arrives that he
he loses everything, cries, and grieves.
such did the beast make me without peace, The sins are once again dragging the sinners into the forest.
coming towards me little by little
it struck me where the sun does not shine.

While I was ruining in a low place, Dante is returning to the forest when he catches a glimpse of a
before my eyes there was offered figure in the dim light, barely visible in the little light
who seemed faint due to a long silence. of dawn.

When I saw this one in the great desert, Terrified, he begs the stranger to have mercy on him and him
"Have mercy on me," I cried to him, asks if he is a man of flesh and blood or the soul of a
"Whatever you are, either shadow or certain man!" 66 deceased.

Answer me: 'I am not a man, I was already a man, The other replies that he is no longer a man alive, but that he
my parents were Lombards, having had Lombard parents and being originally from
Mantoni for both the homeland. MantuaIt presents itself as Virgil. This is found in
limbo because for one reason or another they have not been
I acquired in July, though it was late, baptized.
I lived in Rome under the good Augustus
at the time of the false and lying gods. The Latin poet who lived during the time of Caesar and Augustus, namely
during paganism, and that sang the deeds of Aeneas in
I was a poet, and I sang of that just man a poem dedicated to him.
son of Anchises who came from Troy
after the proud Ilion was burned.

But why do you return to so much boredom? Virgil reprimands Dante for sliding toward evil.
why don’t you climb the delightful mountain of the forest, while he should climb the hill that is the beginning
What is the beginning and cause of all joy? of happiness
You are that Virgil and that source Dante understood who he was talking to and replied with
"Why do you spread out to speak such a wide river?" shameful admiration front
his answer with a shameful forehead.

O you of the other poets, honor and light, The poet tells Virgil that he is the greatest poet ever.
weigh for me the long study and the great love lived and declaring that he is his master and style model
that made me seek your volume. 84 poetic.

You are my master and my author, Dante thus informs us about who his models are.
You are the only one from whom I took
the beautiful style that has honored me.

I see the beast for whom I turned. It justifies itself by indicating the wolf as the wild beast that
help me from her, famous sage, he blocks the road, praying to Virgil to help him get past it,
"She makes my veins and wrists tremble." because he is too scared. ('it makes my veins tremble and the
polsi" = rhetorical figure = endiade.)
You must take another journey,
replied, then seeing me weep, Virgil takes the floor explaining to Dante that, if he wants
If you want to escape this wild place; to save his life, he will have to embark on another journey.

for this beast, for which you cry,

does not let others pass by his way,
but it prevents it so much that it kills it; In fact, the wolf is a particularly dangerous animal and
evil, unable to satisfy its own hunger, that kills
it has such a wicked and cruel nature, whoever you meet.
what never satisfies the ravenous desire,
and after the meal he is hungrier than before.

Many are the animals to which one marries,

and there will be more still, until the hound Virgil explains that there are many animals with which greed is
will come, that will make her die with sorrow. pairs and prophesies then the coming of a “hound,” a dog of
hunting that will kill the she-wolf with great pain and will drive it back
in the Inferno from where she has come out.
These will not buy land or pewter,
my wisdom, love and virtue,
and your nation will be between felt and felt. He will not be interested in material wealth but in goods.
spiritual, and its homeland will not be any particular city.
Of that humble Italy there will be salvation
for which the virgin Camilla died, He will be the salvation of Italy, for which others have already
Euryalus and Turnus and Nisus of the wound. characters have given their lives, like the Trojans
Eurialo and Niso, the queen of the VolsciCamillathe king of the Rutuli
He will chase her through every village, Shiftall sung by the same Virgil in the Aeneide.
until he will have put her back in hell,
there where envy first departed.

Where I for your sake think and discern Virgil explains to Dante how he should behave.
that you follow me, and I will be your guide, conclude by telling Dante that he must follow him on a journey
and I will lead you from here to the eternal place, that will lead him to the three realms of the Underworld.

you will hear the desperate cries, The "eternal" place, or hell, and will hear the desperate cries.
you will see the ancient sorrowful spirits, the damned who would like to die one more time.
at the second death, everyone cries; 117

and you will see colors that are happy Then he will guide him in Purgatory, where he will see the penitents who are
in the fire, because they hope to come happy to atone for their sins to be admitted in
when it is to the blessed people. Paradise.
 At this point, Virgil says that he will accompany him.
At the dock then if you want to board, in hell and in purgatory, but then he will be accompanied by
soul, be worthy of me in this. a soul more deserving than him.
with you I will leave you in my departure; 123

for that emperor who reigns up there, And Virgil will not be able to guide him because he did not believe.
because it was rebellious to its law, in Christianity, therefore God cannot admit him into the kingdom
He does not want anyone to come for me to his city.of the Heavens.

It rules everywhere and here it governs; Virgil describes God as an emperor on a throne and in the
here is his city and the high seat; in your words there is a bit of regret 'oh happy is the one who there'
Oh happy is he who chooses there! He/she votes!

And I to him: "Poet, I beseech you

for that God whom you did not know,
to flee from this evil and worse, Dante responds to Virgil, asking him to guide him in
this journey, as he is eager to see the San door
that you lead me where you said, Peter and the torments of the damned.
yes that I see the door of Saint Peter
the color that you make so many sad.
Virgil begins to move and Dante follows him.
Then he moved, and I followed behind.