Dante's Divine Comedy 9

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Chapter title: the sixth circle

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What is that!?

It must be...

Medusa! Close your eyes, you must not look!

Medusa!?

There, the three hellish furies stain'd with blood;
Amongst them Medusa, queen of endless woe!

To lifeless stone those who see her will turn!

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The Gorgon sisters, of Greek myth and lore,
Stheno, Medusa, and Euryale were:
In limb and motion feminine they seemed;
Around them greenest hydras twisting rolled
Their volumes; adders and cerastes crept
Instead of hair, and their fierce temples bound.
Perseus, Grecian hero, used the shield
By Athena gifted as a mirror
And slew with ease the transfixed Medusa.


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Medusa, turn their flesh to solid stone!

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Open your eyes; those feared ones have not come.

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Those sounds are surely not Medusa's wings?

No, a different one has arrived; look!

ah!?
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He, whom I have eagerly awaited!

ooh - ah...... an angel!!

hii!
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O banished out of Heaven, people despised!
Whence is this arrogance within you couched?

How much torment shall you endure, damned ones,
Before understanding dawns upon you!?

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hii~

uwa~

waaaaaa

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waaaaa

kyaaaa

hi--

zazaza
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hi

doo--n

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Let us proceed, for the gate has opened;

The second gate of Hell.

ha

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gigigigi

gii~..

do~n

hot...

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Witness the reddish light that burns the sky!

The sky is dyed purple, from the fires;
Bard, you shall soon see the sinners burning.

Can my mortal self truly endure such?

The dead scorched are by ever-burning flame,
And their charred bodies cry out in anguish.

You cannot understand their suffering.

Yet, you must take careful note of such things,
For is it not your duty to do so?

y...yes

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a sepulcher...

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aaahh

haaa

aaahh

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Oh, but Maestro, what are all these people
Who, having sepulture within these tombs,
Make themselves audible by doleful sighs?

they are heretics!!

they are all heretics!

The Heresiarchs must all fall to Hell!

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Heretics!? heresy is such a great crime?

Certainly! For they are the true sinners!

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They from the true path of God strayed afar,
Worshipping carelessly their false gods!
What other fate but Hell is fit for them?

A false religion is a profound sin!

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Those who from the hot southern land had come
Spread heresy throughout our holy lands,
And dragged to confusion many of ours!

They are those who rebelled against the path
Of reverence to the one, true teaching!

So it is just that such sinners are here,
Scorched eternally within sepulchers!

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But still... are heretics truly sinners?

Our teachings are unknown to those who live
In the southern lands; do those who receive
Their own teachings truly deserve such flames?

They lived without knowing of the true Word,
But nonetheless they must pass through this land...

Ah! You, please stay your footsteps in this place...

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Your mode of speaking makes you manifest
A native of that noble fatherland,
To which perhaps I too molestful was.

Please, speak again, and permit me to hear
The beautiful sound of one from Firenze...

oh, you?

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Farinata, Ghibelline general,
Who led your faction at Montaperti
To victory over my own Guelphs.

Manente degli Uberti, known too
As Farinata, Ghibelline leader,
Defeated the Guelphs at Montaperti.
With victory drunk, his allies then wished
To burn down the whole city of Firenze.
Farinata, however, protested,
And became the hero who saved Firenze.

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Who are you that calls me by my own name?

Could you tell me, perhaps, what is your name?

my name is Dante

Dante Alighieri

One who bears the lineage of the Guelphs!

Oh, the Guelph faction... those who against us
Fought honorably in brave defiance?

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And those who in the end chased us away...

Yes, those ones!

General Farinata!

The difficulty of leading people,
Of navigating the flow of this world...

Before long, you too will know of such things...

I pray...

That you once again return to the world...

And I pray for peace for your descendants...

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Such a hero as Farinata is
Must fall to hell and suffer such torments?

hell...

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Thus, now I, Dante Alighieri,
Guided by my maestro, noble Virgil,
Go further into the deep, dark abyss.
When or how soon it will end, I know not.
So we continue upon our journey...

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After this, more terrors of Hell await...
How sorrowful... merely watching such things
Causes both my heart and mind to tremble.
I do not know what repulsive things yet
Lie ahead, but I must resign myself...

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