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Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno]
Dante Aligheri
Translated by Charles Eliot Norton
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To JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
It is a happiness for me to connect this volume with the memory of my
friend and master from youth. I was but a beginner in the study of the
edy when I first had his parable aid in the understanding
of it. During the last year of his life he read the proofs of this volume, to
what great advantage to my work may readily be conceived.
When, in the early summer of this year, the printing of the Purgatory
began, though illness made it an exertion to him, he continued this act of
friendship, and did not cease till, at the fifth canto, he laid down the pencil
forever from his dear and honored hand.
CHARLES ELIOT NORTON.
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS,
1 October, 1891
The text followed in this translation is, in general, that of Witte. In a
few cases I have preferred the readings which the more recent researches
of the Rev. Dr. Edward Moore, of Oxford, seem to have established as
correct.
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CONTENTS
CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the foot of a hill which he
begins to ascend; he is hindered by three beasts; he turns back and is met
by Virgil, who proposes to guide him into the eternal world.
CANTO II. Dante, doubtful of his own powers, is discouraged at the
outset.--Virgil cheers him by telling him that he has been sent to his aid by
a blessed Spirit from Heaven.--Dante casts off fear, and the poets proceed.
CANTO III. The gate of Hell. Virgil leads Dante in.--The punishment
of the neither good nor bad.--Acheron, and the sinners on its bank.--
Charon.--Earthquake.--Dante swoons.
CANTO IV. The further side of Acheron.--Virgil leads Dante into
Limbo, the First Circle of Hell, containing the spirits of those who lived
virtuously but without Christianity.--Greeting of Virgil by his fellow
poets.--They enter a castle, where are the shades of ancient worthies.--
Virgil and Dante dep