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. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Furies, the Centaurs, Geryon, and others. None of them, with the exception of the brute Cerberus, have had part in the tormenting of the sinners. The Centaurs shot their arrows only at those who lifted themselves too much out of the river of blood. But in this valley, and in the fifth and ninth, the ...
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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. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Furies, the Centaurs, Geryon, and others. None of them, with the exception of the brute Cerberus, have had part in the tormenting of the sinners. The Centaurs shot their arrows only at those who lifted themselves too much out of the river of blood. But in this valley, and in the fifth and ninth, the demons are the creatures of Hell, and administers of its torments. And he to me: " Unwillingly I tell it, but thy plain speech compels me, which makes me remember the old world. I was he who brought the beautiful Ghisola I0 to do the will of the Marquis, however the shameful tale may be reported. And not the only Bolo-gnese do I weep here; nay, this place is so full of them, that so many tongues are not now taught between Savena and the Reno to say sipa; " and if of this thou wishest assurance or testimony, bring to mind our avaricious breasts." As he spoke thus a demon struck him with his thong and said: " Begone, pander, here are no women for coining." 9. v. 51. Salse, the name of a ravine near Bologna, into which the bodies of criminals were thrown. There is perhaps a play on the word salse as meaning ' sauces.' 10. v. 55. His own sister; the unseemly tale is known only through Dante and his fourteenth-century commentators, and the latter, while agreeing that the Marquis was one of the Esti of Ferrara, do not agree as to which of them he was. Venedico was a man of note, and for a time Podesta of Pistoia, where Dante may have seen him. 11. v. 61. Bologna lies between the Savena and the Reno; sipa is the Bolognese provincialism for sia. I rejoined my Escort; then with few steps we came to where a crag jutted from the bank." We ascended it easily enough, and turning to the right '3 upon its ridge, from those eternal encircling walls I4 we...
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