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Title: The Inferno
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Oelsner, Herman, b. 1871 Carlyle, John Aitken, 1801-1879
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Publisher: London : J.M. Dent and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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onableto follow natural desires. . . . The more treacherousmen are the wickeder. . . . Bestiality is a lesserthing than vice. xox. Possibly in allusion to Aristotles phrase:... if Art mimics Nature, in the Physics ii. t. 105. Nature being the connecting link. 106-108. See Genesis i. 28 : . . . replenish theearth and subdue it; and iii. 19: In the sweat ofthy face shalt thou eat bread. If these really are theverses Dante had in mind, he possibly selected theformer (for which ii. 15 may be substituted) to re-present Nature, and the latter to represent Art, con-ceiving the one to be addressed to the agriculturist, theother to the artisan. 112-114. The sun was in Aries at the time ot theVision (see Inf. i. 38-40, and note). As the constellationof Pisces which immediately precedes that of Aries is nowon the horizon, the time indicated is about two hoursbefore sunrise (of the second day). At the same hourthe position of Charles Wain, or Bootes, is in the N.W.fCaurus —the N.W. wind). •s-
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•N- Showing the hours at ivhich the several signs of the Zodiacbegin to rise at the spring equinox. Mach sign begins to settwelve hours after it begins to rise. The spectator is lookingSouth. INFERNO THE way down to the Seventh Circle commence!in a wild chasm of shattered rocks. Its entranceis occupied by the Minotaur, honor of Crete, andemblem of the bloodthirsty violence and brutality thatare punished below. The monster begins to gnawhimself threateningly ; but Virgil directs emphaticwords to him, which instantly make him plungeabout in powerless fury, and leave the passage freefor some time (1-17). Dante is then led down amongstloose stones, which are lying so steep, that they giveway under the weight of his feet (18-45). The verof Blood comes to view as they approach the bottom ofthe precipice. It goes round the whole of the Seventh Cerchio Era lo loco, ove a scender la rivaGirone1! venimmo, alpestro, e per quel eh ivi er anco,Flegetonte tal, eh ogni vista ne sarebbe schiva. Qua

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