Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...Ahi! quanto son diverse quelle foci Dalle infernali; ch6 quivi per canti S' entra, e laggiu per lamenti feroci." t saclt: For a rapid course being likened to an arrow, see the description of the flight of one of the Furies in Virg. En. xii, 853-856: --" Harum unam celerem demisit ab aethere summo Jupiter, inque omen Juturnae occurrere jussit. Ilia volat, celerique ad terram turbine fertur: Non secus ac nervo per nubem impulsa sagitta." And in Euripides, Orestes, 311, 312, the Furies are addressed as " &llfliSfS & TTTf/lilC/li/)l)l, I I.-r'./fU v 6t01." Compare Inf. xvii, 136, where it is related that Geryon having set down Dante and Virgil in Malebolge, " Si deleguo, come da corda cocca." Also Par. ii, 23-25: --" E forse in tanto, in quanto un quadrel posa, E vola, e dalla noce si dischiava, Giunto mi vidi." Sotto il governo d' un sol galeoto, t Che gridava: --" Or se' giunta, anima fella?'--Never did bow-string shoot from itself an arrow that ran so swift a course away through the air, as I beheld at that moment a tiny bark coming over the water towards us, under the guidance of a single helmsman, who shouted out: " So! thou art arrived, guilty soul? " We noticed that two lights had been hung out from the watch-tower, indicating that there were two spirits to be conveyed, but Phlegyas would seem to have discovered immediately he caught sight of the two Poets, that only one of them was likely to be destined for punishment, as the other one was clothed with flesh; and he therefore addresses himself to Virgil alone. That Poet however silences him at once, calling to him by his name, with which he appears to be as well acquainted as with that of Charon and the other fiends whom they encounter farther down. He may be supposed to have acquired...
