In hinding him, who might the master be I cannot say; but he had pinioned close Behind the right arm, and in front the other, With chains, that held him so begirt about From the neck down, that on the part uncovered Of his own power against the Supreme Jove," The arms he wielded never more he moves." That of the measureless Briareus These eyes of mine might have experience." Whence he replied: "Thou shalt behold Antæus Close by here, who can speak and is unbound, Who at the bottom of all crime shall place us. Much farther yon is he whom thou wouldst see, And he is bound, and fashioned like to this one, That it could shake a tower so violently, Then we proceeded farther in advance, And to Antæus came, who, full five ells "O thou, who in the valley fortunate, Which Scipio the heir of glory made, And who, hadst thou been at the mighty war There where the cold doth lock Cocytus up. Make us not go to Tityus nor Typhoeus; This one can give of that which here is longed for; Still in the world can he restore thy fame; Because he lives, and still expects long life, So said the Master; and in haste the other His hands extended and took up my Guide,Hands whose great pressure Hercules once felt. Virgilius, when he felt himself embraced, Said unto me: “Draw nigh, that I may take thee;" Then of himself and me one bundle made. As seems the Carisenda, to behold Beneath the leaning side, when goes a cloud Watching to see him stoop, and then it was Judas with Lucifer, he put us down ; Nor thus bowed downward made he there delay, But, as a mast does in a ship, uprose. CANTO XXXII. IF I had rhymes both rough and stridulous, To sketch the bottom of all the universe, Who helped Amphion in enclosing Thebes, O rabble ill-begotten above all, Who're in the place to speak of which is hard, And I was scanning still the lofty wall, The semblance had of glass, and not of water. 143 So thick a veil ne'er made upon its current Nor there beneath the frigid sky the Don, F'en at the edge 'twould not have given a creak. Were the disconsolate shades within the ice, I downward turned me, and saw two so close, The hair upon their heads together mingled. "Ye who so strain your breasts together, tell me," I said, “who are you;" and they bent their necks, Gushed o'er the eyelids, and the frost congealed So strongly; whereat they, like two he-goats, Lost both his ears, still with his visage downward, If thou desire to know who these two are, The valley whence Bisenzio descends Belonged to them and to their father Albert. They from one body came, and all Caïna Thou shalt search through, and shalt not find a shade Not he in whom were broken breast and shadow So with his head I see no farther forward, And bore the name of Sassol Mascheroni; Well knowest thou who he was, if thou art Tuscan And that thou put me not to further speech, Know that I Camicion de' Pazzi was, And wait Carlino to exonerate me." Then I beheld a thousand faces, made Purple with cold; whence o'er me comes a shudder, I know not; but in walking 'mong the heads That I through him may issue from a doubt; Who was blaspheming vehemently still: "Who art thou, that thus reprehendest others?" 'Now who art thou, that goest through Antenora Smiting," replied he, "other people's cheeks, So that, if thou wert living, 'twere too much?" 'Living I am, and dear to thee it may be," Was my response, "if thou demandest fame, And he to me: "For the reverse I long; Take thyself hence, and give me no more trouble, Then by the scalp behind I seized upon him, And said: "It must needs be thou name thyself, Whence he to me: "Though thou strip off my hair, And more than one shock of it had pulled out, But thou must bark? what devil touches thee?" "Now," said I, "I care not to have thee speak, Accursed traitor; for unto thy shame I will report of thee veracious news." Begone," replied he, "and tell what thou wilt, But be not silent, if thou issue hence, Of him who had just now his tongue so prompt; He weepeth here the silver of the French; 'I saw,' thus canst thou phrase it, 'him of Duera Of whom the gorget Florence slit asunder; Yonder with Ganellon, and Tebaldello Who oped Faenza when the people slept." Already we had gone away from him, When I beheld two frozen in one hole, So that one head a hood was to the other; And even as bread through hunger is devoured, The uppermost on the other set his teeth, There where the brain is to the nape united. Not in another fashion Tydeus gnawed The temples of Menalippus in disdain, Than that one did the skull and the other things. "O thou, who showest by such bestial sign Thy hatred against him whom thou art eating, That if thou rightfully of him complain, In knowing who ye are, and his transgression, CANTO XXXIII. His mouth uplifted from his grim repast, That sinner, wiping it upon the hair Of the same head that he behind had wasted. Then he began: "Thou wilt that I renew The desperate grief, which wrings my heart already But if my words be seed that may bear fruit Thou hast come down here; but a Florentine And this one was Ruggieri the Archbishop ; |