Dante's Divine Comedy 5

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Chapter title: The second Circle

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Minos: Gugugu
Souls of the damned!
To come here, what crime have ye committed?

Minos: Nothing can be hidden from confession!

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Demon: Speak, and say which crime you have committed!

Girl: Ah...

Girl: This is a mistake, I'm not a sinner!
Down to Hell I have mistakenly dropped!

Girl: It's a mistake...
Not one crime nor sin have I committed...

Minos: Gugugu, is that so?

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Minos: Is that so? Was your judgment a mistake?
So you haven't committed any crimes,
You say?

Girl: Y-yes, that's right!

Girl: Ah!

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Minos: Lies! You committed a serious crime!
Guhaha
For you, only Hell's tortures now await!

Virgil: That devil is Minos, the judge of Hell.
One by one, he sentences all who come.

Virgil: And for each, when the spirit evil-born
Thus comes before him, wholly it confesses,
And this discriminator of transgressions

Virgil: Judges what place in Hell is fit for it;
And wraps it with his tail as many times
As grades he wishes it should be thrust down.

Minos: You who passes there, where are you going?

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Virgil: Do not impede his journey fate-ordained;
It is so willed there where is power to do
That which is willed; so ask no further question.

Let us pass.

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Dante: Waaaa

Minos: Hahahahaha! All right, you may pass!

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Dante: It's dreadful, I still haven't ceased trembling.

Virgil: Were you a sinner, to Minos behold
Would be surely much more terrifying.

Dante: Certainly... he who decides Hell's tortures...

Dante: This sudden wind...

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Dante: That...

Dante: Those human bodies, flowing in the wind...

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Dante: Whirled around by the black wind, shrieking...

Virgil: They are those of insatiable lust.

Virgil: Unto such a perpetual torment
The carnal malefactors* are condemned,
Who reason subjugate to appetite.

* Malefactor = wrongdoer

Virgil: In this circle are such sinners judged.

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Virgil:
The wind blows with never-ceasing Hellish force,
It hither, thither, downward, upward, drives them,

Their voices by the rushing wind drowned out.

No hope doth comfort them for evermore,
Not of repose, but even of lesser pain.

She is Semiramis* of whom we read
That she succeeded Ninus, and was his spouse.

* Assyrian queen.

The next is she who killed herself for love,
Ancient queen of Carthage, shameful Dido.

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Virgil: Then Cleopatra the voluptuous,
Who many men by lust bent to her will.

The beautiful face of the Trojan War
For whom so many died, princess Helen.

And there is love-struck Paris; there, Tristan...

Text: Then, for a while, more than a thousand
Shades did he name and point out with his finger,
Whom Love had separated from our life,
The names of dames of old and cavaliers*.

* i.e., famous men and women from the past.

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Text: So many souls by that black wind swept up,
Control over their own limbs surrendered.
When they arrive before the precipice,
There are the shrieks, the plaints, and the laments,
There they blaspheme the puissance divine.

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Dante: Hm?

Dante: Those two souls that pass... / seem different.

Dante: They are not like the others, and seem blown
More lightly than the other souls damned.

Dante: Speak would I to those two, who go together,
And seem upon the wind to be so light.

Virgil: When they near you, by spirit implore them,
For love does lead them, and so they will come.

Dante: By my spirit...?

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Dante: You two who blow helplessly in the wind,
Come speak to us, if no one interdicts* it.

* i.e., "if no one objects to it."

Francesca: So strong was the affectionate appeal,

That will we hear, and we will speak to you,
Of what it pleases thee to hear and speak.

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Paolo: My name is Paolo...

Francesca: And my name is Francesca.

Dante: Ooohh!
Then you are truly that tragic couple?


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Text: It can be said that was in Dante's time
The tragedy of Paolo and Francesca.

The formal interview for marriage neared;
Her arranged suitor was Gianciatto,
Heir to the Malatesta family.*

* Guido I da Polenta, the lord of Rimini, arranged a marriage between Gianciatto, his heir, and Francesca to solidify the peace between Rimini and the Malatesta family.

But he feared that if his deformed visage
She saw, from the wedding grounds she would flee.

So he arranged for his brother, Paolo,
To stand false in his stead for the marriage.

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Text: Handsome Paolo, nothing like his brother,
Reluctantly agreed, and went along.

And there he met...

His ideal woman, Francesca.

She, too, was entranced by him at first sight.

And so the two found themselves in tragic love...

For Francesca's true husband was to be...

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Text: The ugly Gianciatto...

Paolo, torn, did not his brother betray,

And so too did poor Francesca decide
That the marriage could not now be halted.
The true love of Paolo and Francesca
Could remain nowhere but in their own minds.

But... they could not keep such love a secret...

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Text: Should they try and constrain their secret love,
It would only burst forth, more passionate.

Could brave Lancelot* have held back his love?
Could he his feelings for the queen have quelled?

* Lancelot of Arthurian legend; the queen he loved, of course, being Guenevere.

They met in secret, by love excited,
But...

Where they met, a tragedy occurred.

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Text: As he came upon their forbidden love,
Gianciatto his sword angrily thrust
Into and through confused and surprised chests.

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Francesca: Love has conducted us unto our death;
Cain* waits for him who quenched our life!

* The biblical killer of Abel, his brother, who lies in the deepest circle of Hell.

And all the while one spirit uttered this,
The other one did weep so, that, for pity,

I swooned away as if I had been dying...

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Dante: Beatrice!?

Dante: Beatrice!!

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Dante: Please tell me, Beatrice...

Dante: The love... the love they had, was it a sin?

Dante: Is... Is Francesca truly a sinner?

Dante: Did she really invite their tragedy?

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Dante: Beatrice!!
What was the error that Francesca made!?

Beatrice: Love...

Beatrice: Passion...