Stars Citations in Dante's Inferno Compiled by Peter Y. Chou WisdomPortal.com *********** for Professor John Freccero's Dante's Paradiso class Stanford University, Spring 2001 Allen Mandelbaum's translation (1980)
Raphael, Dante		Gustave Doré, Inferno 2

1.38	Temp'era dal principio del mattino, e 'l sol montava 'n sù con quelle stelle ch'eran con lui quando l'amor divino	The time was the beginning of the morning; the sun was rising now in fellowship with the same stars that had escorted it
2.55	Lucevan li occhi suoi più che la stella; e cominciommi a dir soave e piana, con angelica voce, in sua favella:	Her eyes surpassed the splendor of the star's; and she began to speak to me— so gently and softly— with angelic voice. She said:
3.23	Quivi sospiri, pianti e alti guai risonavan per l'aere sanza stelle, per ch'io al cominciar ne lagrimai.	Here sighs and lamentations and loud cries were echoing across the starless air, so that, as soon as I set out, I wept.
7.98	Or discendiamo omai a maggior pieta; già ogne stella cade che saliva quand'io mi mossi, e 'l troppo star si vieta".	But now let us descend to greater sorrow, for every star that rose when I first moved is setting now; we cannot stay too long."
15.55	Ed elli a me: "Se tu segui tua stella, non puoi fallire a glorioso porto, se ben m'accorsi ne la vita bella;	And he to me: "If you pursue your star, you cannot fail to reach a splendid harbor, if in fair life, I judged you properly;
16.83	Però, se campi d'esti luoghi bui e torni a riveder le belle stelle, quando ti gioverà dicere "I' fui",	So, if you can escape these lands of darkness and see the lovely stars on your return, when you repeat with pleasure, 'I was there,'
20.50	ebbe tra ' bianchi marmi la spelonca per sua dimora; onde a guardar le stelle e 'l mar no li era la veduta tronca.	who live below, had as his home, a cave among white marbles, from which he could gaze at stars and sea with unimpeded view.
22.12	n´ già con sì diversa cennamella cavalier vidi muover n´ pedoni, n´ nave a segno di terra o di stella.	but never yet have I seen horsemen or seen infantry or ship that sails by signal of land or star move to so strange a bugle!
26.23	perché non corra che virtù nol guidi; sì che, se stella bona o miglior cosa m'ha dato 'l ben, ch'io stessi nol m'invidi.	that it not run where virtue does not guide; so that, if my kind star or something better has given me that gift, I not abuse it.
26.127	Tutte le stelle già de l'altro polo vedea la notte e 'l nostro tanto basso, che non surgea fuor del marin suolo.	At night I now could see the other pole and all its stars; the star of ours had fallen and never rose above the plain of the ocean.
34.139	salimmo sù, el primo e io secondo, tanto ch'i' vidi de le cose belle che porta 'l ciel, per un pertugio tondo. E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.	he first, I following— until I saw, through a round opening, some of those things of beauty Heaven bears. It was from there that we emerged, to see— once more— the stars.

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