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Title: The Inferno
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Oelsner, Herman, b. 1871 Carlyle, John Aitken, 1801-1879
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Publisher: London : J.M. Dent and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ot help us much. On theother hand, there can be no doubt that the leopard ofInf. i. 31, 32 and 42 stands for Luxury, that the cordwas the symbol of an order noted for the severityof its rule, and that Dante, having just witnessed thetortures inflicted on the luxurious, might be expectedhenceforth to lead a life of purity without any furtherreminder. It is not necessary to carry the symbolismfurther. Virgil, having need of something to attractGeryons attention, uses the cord merely because it hasnow become superfluous, and because he has nothingelse at hand. 131. This is Geryon, in classical mythology a Kingof Spain, who was slain by Hercules for the sake of hisoxen. His position as guardian of the fraudulent isaccounted for by the medieval tradition, according towhich he enticed strangers into his power and stealthilykilled them. Virgil (JEn. viii. 202) and other classicalpoets speak of Geryon as a monster with three bodies ;but Dantes description is based rather on Rev. ix, 7,10, 19.
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The Rivers of Romagna and the Mouth of the Po in Dantestime ( Inferno xvi. 94-102 and xxvih 40-54). INFERNO THE monster Geryon is described ; and the Poetileave the rocky margin of the streamlet, and godown, on the right hand, to the place where he haslanded himself (1-43). Virgil remains with him, andsends Dante, by himself alone (not without signifi-cance), to see the last class or sinners that are punishedon the burning sand,—the Usurers who have doneViolence to Nature and Art. Canto xi. 94, &c. Theyare sitting all crouched up, tears gushing from their Cerchio Ecco la fiera con la coda aguzza, Urono j c^e PaS8a 1 nionti, e rompe muri ed armi ; ecco colei che tutto il mondo appuzza.7Sì cominciò lo mio duca a parlarmi, « ed accennolle che venisse a proda, vicino al fin de* passeggiati marmi ;e quella sozza imagine di froda t sen venne, ed arrivò la testa e il busto ; ma in su la riva non trasse la coda.La faccia sua era faccia duom giusto, 10 tanto benigna avea di fuor la p

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