Universi Paralleli, Divina Commedia Inferno canto XXVI

"When




I estranged me from Circe, that held back me




for over one year there next to Gaeta,




before Enea called this way her,




neither the tenderness for child, neither the affection




reverent for the old father, neither the due love




what it had to make Penelope happy,




could win inside of me the ardent desire




what I had to know the world,




and the vices and the virtues of the men:




but I pushed me for the boundless tall sea




only with a ship, and with that small team




from which had not been abandoned.




I saw the one and the other bank up to Spain,




up to Morocco, and to Sardinia, and to the other islands




you bathe around all from that sea.




My companions and I were old and slow




in our movements when we came




to that narrow narrow where Ercole fixed limits,




so that the man doesn't risk him over:




I left Seville to my right, to my left




by now Ceuta had left me.




"Or brothers", I said, "that you have reached the border




westerner through centomila dangers,




in this your brief eve




of the senses, that he/she still remains you,




doesn't take to deny the knowledge,




following the course of the sun some uninhabited world.




You reflect on your nature:




you were not servants to live as brutes,




but to follow the virtue and the to know.




"With this brief discourse made my companions




so desirous to continue the trip,




what hardly after I would have succeeded in stopping them;




and revolt toward East the stern of our ship,




we turned the oars into wings for the rash trip,




always advancing toward left.




The night already showed us all the stars of the antarctic,




while instead the arctic pole was so low




what it didn't get up above the level of the sea.




Five times had ignited and as many out




the light that the moon shows in its inferior part,




from when we had begun our difficulty trip,




when it appeared us a mountain, dark to cause




of the distance, and it seemed so much me tall




as I never had view of it some.




We rejoyced, and immediately our joy he changed in weeping




because from the earth from a little sighted a wind it rose




whirling, that invested the bow of the ship.




Three times it did turn together with all the waters:




to the fourth grade it made to raise aloft the stern




and to sink the bow, as wanted God,




until the sea it was closed again above of us."

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Io devo ringraziare Lei Professor Simpson, per il suo tempo, a me dedicato.

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Un gran piacere vederla....tante grazie...

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