Simple Samples: Paradiso Canto III

I turned, then, to that shade who seemed to be the most intent to speak, and I began, moved by an overwhelming urge, to say “O well-created soul who, in the rays of endless life, enjoy that sweetness which, till truly tasted, never can be known, how happy it would make me if you were […]

Simple Samples: Inferno Canto XXXIII

Lifting his mouth from his horrendous meal, this sinner first wiped off his messy lips In the hair remaining on the chewed-up skull Then spoke: “You want me to renew a grief So desperate that just the thought of it, Much less the telling, grips my heart with pain; But if my words can be […]