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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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•MDCCCC1V- PUBLISHED • BYf M DfiNT•AMP CO: ALDlNS-HOUSe-LOMDOM-W-C Inferna tetigit possit ut supera assequi. INFERNO P\ ANTE finds himself astray in a dark Wood, where he spends a night of great misery. He says thatdeath is hardly more bitter, than it is to recall what hesuffered there ; but that he will tell the fearful thingshe saw, in order that he may also tell how he foundguidance, and first began to discern the real causesof all misery (1-9). He comes to a Hill; and seeingits summit already bright with the rays of the Sun, hebegins to ascend it. The way to it looks quite de-serted (10-30). He is met by a beautiful Leopard,which keeps distracting his attention from the Hill,and makes him turn back several times (31-36). The Proemio Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vitaSelva ... ,oscura mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita. Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura «questa selva selvaggia ed aspra e forte,che nel pensier rinnova la paura ! Tanto è a

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