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AVE DANTE - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1 (Inferno) (English trans.) [1321]

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The Italian Text with a Translation in English Blank Verse and a Commentary by Courtney Langdon, vol. 1 (Inferno) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1918). English version.

Part of: The Divine Comedy, in 3 vols. (Langdon trans.)

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ALLA MIA

AVE DANTE

1321–1921

    • Above Man’s war-wracked world a veteran throng
    • Of singing spirits gather in the air,
    • Called from the Poets’ Heaven to take their share
    • In Right’s impending victory over Wrong.
    • Far in their van the Eagle Eye of Song
    • Looms o’er Ravenna, where he died, and where
    • He saw God’s Freedom in the dazzling glare
    • Of visions, which to every race belong.
    • Him his redeemed, united Italy —
    • Her Alps new crowned with Monza’s iron band,
    • Her Hadria wedded with her Doge’s ring —
    • Hails as the Prophet-Bard of Liberty;
    • And bids the free of every tongue and land
    • Join in her Ave, and their tribute bring.