Dante: His Times And His Work
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In this pit are punished the hypocrites, who go in slow procession cladin cowls of gilded lead. Contrary to the usual practice the poets havein this case to descend to the bottom of the pit, the bridges being allbroken away. Malacoda, the leader of the fiends in the last _bolgia_, had mentioned one, but (falsely) assured them that they would find asound one further on. He also informed them that the destruction of thebridges had taken place 1266 years ago on the previous day, but fivehours late...r than the time of speaking. This gives an important“time-reference. ” There can be no doubt that the allusion is to therending of the rocks at the moment of Our Lord’s death (_cf. _ xii. 31-45), which took place at 3 P. M. , so that we have 10 A. M. On EasterEve fixed as the hour at which the poets meet with the devils of thefifth pit. Among the hypocrites Dante talks with two men who had jointlyheld the office of _Podestà_, or chief magistrate, at Florence in theyear after his birth. [30] They belonged to opposite parties, and thedouble appointment had been one of the many expedients devised torestore peace; but it had not answered, and the two were suspected ofhaving sunk their own differences of opinion, not to conciliate thefactions, but to enrich themselves at the expense of the State.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In this pit are punished the hypocrites, who go in slow procession cladin cowls of gilded lead. Contrary to the usual practice the poets havein this case to descend to the bottom of the pit, the bridges being allbroken away. Malacoda, the leader of the fiends in the last _bolgia_, had mentioned one, but (falsely) assured them that they would find asound one further on. He also informed them that the destruction of thebridges had taken place 1266 years ago on the previous day, but fivehours late...r than the time of speaking. This gives an important“time-reference. ” There can be no doubt that the allusion is to therending of the rocks at the moment of Our Lord’s death (_cf. _ xii. 31-45), which took place at 3 P. M. , so that we have 10 A. M. On EasterEve fixed as the hour at which the poets meet with the devils of thefifth pit. Among the hypocrites Dante talks with two men who had jointlyheld the office of _Podestà_, or chief magistrate, at Florence in theyear after his birth. [30] They belonged to opposite parties, and thedouble appointment had been one of the many expedients devised torestore peace; but it had not answered, and the two were suspected ofhaving sunk their own differences of opinion, not to conciliate thefactions, but to enrich themselves at the expense of the State.
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