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Joyce's allusions to Dante's works are quoted below, indented.
1265: late spring: born Dante Alighieri in Florence, Italy
1274: 9yo Dante falls in love with 9yo Beatrice
"The moment I saw her I say in all truth that the vital spirit, which dwells in the inmost depths of the heart, began to tremble so violently that I felt the vibration alarmingly in all my pulses, even the weakest of them.""--Then, Stephen said, staring and rambling on to himself or some unknown listener somewhere, we have the impetuosity of Dante and the isosceles triangle, Miss Portinari, he fell in love with and Leonardo and san Tommaso Mastino." [Eumeus]
1277: betrothed to Gemma Donati
1279: mother Bella has died (no date)
1283: marries Gemma Donati; father has died; has taught himself poesy; greeted by Beatrice
"As they walked down the street she turned her eyes towards me where I stood in fear and trembling, and with her ineffable courtesy, which is now rewarded in eternal life, she greeted me! and such was the virtue of her greeting that I seemed to experience the height of bliss.""...then my spirits were so routed by the power which Love acquired on finding himself so close to this most gracious being that none survived except the spirits of vision... A number of the women present, observing my transformation, began to be astonished and, talking about it, they mocked at me in company with the most gracious one herself."
Beatrice marries and dies
"Sighing deeply, I said to myself: 'One day, inevitably, even your most gracious Beatrice must die.' This thought threw me into such a state of bewilderment that I closed my eyes, and I began, like a person who is delirious, to be tormented by these fantasies."Amid my sighing is to be discerned
A sound of plaintiveness
Which calls on Death, lamenting ceaselessly.
To him my every aspiration turned
When in his cruelty
He held my lady fast in his duress
For then the marvel of her loveliness
To Heaven withdrew and to our sight was lost,
Transformed to spiritual beauty there,
Diffusing everywhere
A light of love which greets the angel-host,
Moving their intellect, so deep and wise,
To wonderment, so full of grace it is.
fought as a cavalryman against the Ghibellines
1293: La vita nuova [Italian] [English pending]
I glowed with a flame of charity which moved me to forgive all who had ever injured me...No man could think base thoughts who looked on her...
Of praises sung of her she is aware,
Yet clad in sweet humility she goes.When she a little smiles, her aspect then
No tongue can tell, no memory can hold,
So rare and strange a miracle is she.Behold a god more powerful than I, who comes to rule over me.
Now your source of joy has been revealed.
Incipit vita nuova: here begins a new life.
[A friend inquired] "We ask you to tell us in what this joy of yours resides!" And I, in reply to her, said this: "In words which praise my lady."
...my natural spirit began to be impeded in its functioning, for my soul was wholly given to thoughts of this most gracious person. In a short time I grew so frail and weak that many of my friends felt concern at my appearance.
Beyond the widest of the circling spheres
A sigh which leaves my heart aspires to move,
A new celestial influence which Love
Bestows on it by virtue of his tears
Impels it ever upwards. As it nears
Its goal of longing in the realms above
The pilgrim spirit sees a vision of
A soul in glory whom the host reveres.
Gazing at her, it speaks of what it sees
In subtle words I do not comprehend
Within my heart forlorn which bids it tell.
That noble one is named, I apprehend,
For frequently it mentions Beatrice;
This much, beloved ladies, I know well.
1308-1321: Divine Comedy
1321: ?13Sep: died Ravenna at 56yo
Benvenuto
"Rhymes: two men dressed the same, looking the same, two by two. ...la tua pace ...che parlar ti piace ...mentreche il vento, come fa, si tace. He saw them three by three, approaching girls, in green, in rose, in russet, entwining, per l'aer perso in mauve, in purple, quella pacifica oriafiamma, in gold of oriflamme, di rimirar fè più ardenti. But I old men, penitent, leadenfooted, underdarkneath the night: mouth south: tomb womb." [Eolus]
1884: ex-nun Elizabeth 'Dante' Conway (babytalk for 'auntie') moves in with Joyce family, tutoring JAJ from 2-6yo
1891: house in Blackrock has stained glass windows of Dante and Beatrice
1893: 11yo James Joyce chooses Italian (over Greek or German) at Belvedere college as his optional language, for trivial reasons
1899: 17yo JAJ chooses Italian as optional language at UC 2nd year, supposedly to better study Dante
1904: Berlitz language schools assign JAJ to Pola (and later Trieste) Austria where Italian is spoken (children raised speaking Italian at home)
1906: JAJ's story 'Grace' parodies Hell-Purgatory-Heaven structure of Divine Comedy [etext]
"Italian literature begins and ends with Dante. But that is a great deal. In Dante the whole spirit of the Renaissance is to be found." [wp54]"I love Dante almost as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food, the rest is ballast." [e218; cf? wp54]
"Dante tires one quickly; it is as if one were to look at the sun." [wp69] [more]
Dante:
"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
ché la diritta via era smarrita..."
Longfellow: "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost." [info]
Norton: "Midway upon the road of our life I found myself within a dark wood, for the right way had been missed." [etext]
Wright 1928: "One night, when half my life behind me lay,
I wandered from the straight lost path afar.
Through the great dark was no releasing way;
Above that dark was no relieving star.
If yet that terrored night I think or say,
As death's cold hands its fears resuming are."
Cary: "In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct"
Translation info: Pinsky
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The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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"If you hold that he, a greying man with two marriageable daughters, with thirtyfive years of life, nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, [1.1] with fifty of experience, is the beardless undergraduate from Wittenberg" [Scylla] "The adiaphane in the noon of life is an Egypt's plague" [Oxen]
The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The Earthquake and the Swoon.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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"How many! [3.55] All these here once walked round Dublin." [Hades]
The First Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Pagans and the Unbaptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The Noble Castle of Philosophy.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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"Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. [4.131]" [Proteus]
The Second Circle: The Wanton. Minos. The Infernal Hurricane. Francesca da Rimini.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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"Hesouls, shesouls, shoals of souls. Engulfed with wailing creecries, whirled, whirling, they bewail. [5.35]" [Scylla]"Rhymes: two men dressed the same, looking the same, two by two. ...la tua pace ...che parlar ti piace ...mentreche il vento, come fa, si tace. [5:92] He saw them three by three, approaching girls, in green, in rose, in russet, entwining, per l'aer perso in mauve, in purple, quella pacifica oriafiamma, in gold of oriflamme, di rimirar fè più ardenti. But I old men, penitent, leadenfooted, underdarkneath the night: mouth south: tomb womb." [Eolus]
The Third Circle: The Gluttonous. Cerberus. The Eternal Rain. Ciacco. Florence.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and the Prodigal. Plutus. Fortune and her Wheel. The Fifth Circle: The Irascible and the Sullen. Styx.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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Phlegyas. Philippo Argenti. The Gate of the City of Dis.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Furies and Medusa. The Angel. The City of Dis. The Sixth Circle: Heresiarchs.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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Farinata and Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti. Discourse on the Knowledge of the Damned.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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"(Twice loudly a pandybat cracks, the coffin of the pianola flies open, the bald little round jack-in-the-box head of Father Dolan springs up... Mild, benign, rectorial, reproving, the head of Don John Conmee rises from the pianola coffin.)" [Circe]
The Broken Rocks. Pope Anastasius. General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Minotaur. The Seventh Circle: The Violent. The River Phlegethon. The Violent against their Neighbours. The Centaurs. Tyrants.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Wood of Thorns. The Harpies. The Violent against themselves. Suicides. Pier della Vigna. Lano and Jacopo da Sant' Andrea.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Sand Waste and the Rain of Fire. The Violent against God. Capaneus. The Statue of Time, and the Four Infernal Rivers.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Violent against Nature. Brunetto Latini.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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Guidoguerra, Aldobrandi, and Rusticucci. Cataract of the River of Blood.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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Geryon. The Violent against Art. Usurers. Descent into the Abyss of Malebolge.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Eighth Circle, Malebolge: The Fraudulent and the Malicious. The First Bolgia: Seducers and Panders. Venedico Caccianimico. Jason. The Second Bolgia: Flatterers. Allessio Interminelli. Thais.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Third Bolgia: Simoniacs. Pope Nicholas III. Dante's Reproof of corrupt Prelates.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Fourth Bolgia: Soothsayers. Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, Manto, Eryphylus, Michael Scott, Guido Bonatti, and Asdente. Virgil reproaches Dante's Pity. Mantua's Foundation.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Fifth Bolgia: Peculators. The Elder of Santa Zita. Malacoda and other Devils.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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"Orchestral Satan, weeping many a rood Tears such as angels weep. Ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta. [21.139]" [Scylla]
Ciampolo, Friar Gomita, and Michael Zanche. The Malabranche quarrel.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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Escape from the Malabranche. The Sixth Bolgia: Hypocrites. Catalano and Loderingo. Caiaphas.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Seventh Bolgia: Thieves. Vanni Fucci. Serpents.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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Vanni Fucci's Punishment. Agnello Brunelleschi, Buoso degli Abati, Puccio Sciancato, Cianfa de' Donati, and Guercio Cavalcanti.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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"BELLO... (He thrusts out a figged fist [25:2] and foul cigar.)" [Circe]
The Eighth Bolgia: Evil Counsellors. Ulysses and Diomed. Ulysses' Last Voyage.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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Guido da Montefeltro. His deception by Pope Boniface VIII.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Ninth Bolgia: Schismatics. Mahomet and Ali. Pier da Medicina, Curio, Mosca, and Bertrand de Born.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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"(Virag unscrews his head in a trice and holds it under his arm.) [28.22]" [Circe]
Geri del Bello. The Tenth Bolgia: Alchemists. Griffolino d' Arezzo and Capocchino.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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Other Falsifiers or Forgers. Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha, Adam of Brescia, Potiphar's Wife, and Sinon of Troy.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Giants, Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antaeus. Descent to Cocytus.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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The Ninth Circle: Traitors. The Frozen Lake of Cocytus. First Division, Caina: Traitors to their Kindred. Camicion de' Pazzi. Second Division, Antenora: Traitors to their Country. Dante questions Bocca degli Abati. Buoso da Duera.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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Count Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri. The Death of Count Ugolino's Sons. Third Division of the Ninth Circle, Ptolomaea: Traitors to their Friends. Friar Alberigo, Branco d' Oria.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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Mandelbaum : Pinsky : Ciardi : Italian
Fourth Division of the Ninth Circle, the Judecca: Traitors to their Lords and Benefactors. Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius. The Chasm of Lethe. The Ascent.
Longfellow : ditto : Cary : Ital
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"On an eminence, the centre of the earth, rises the fieldaltar of Saint Barbara." [Circe]"Through spaces smaller than red globules of man's blood they creepycrawl after Blake's buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow." [Scylla]
"Alone, what did Bloom hear? The double reverberation of retreating feet on the heavenborn earth, the double vibration of a jew's harp in the resonant lane." [Ithaca]
"What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden? The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit." [Ithaca]
Purgatorio 1
"What visible luminous sign attracted Bloom's, who attracted Stephen's, gaze? In the second storey (rere) of his (Bloom's) house the light of a paraffin oil lamp [1.43]" [Ithaca]
Purgatorio 2
"With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm? The 113th, modus peregrinus: In exitu Israel de Egypto: domus Jacob de populo barbaro." [Ithaca]
Purgatorio 19
" THE NYMPH (With a cry flees from him unveiled, her plaster cast cracking, a cloud of stench escaping from the cracks.) Poli...!" [Circe]
Purgatorio 29
"Rhymes: two men dressed the same, looking the same, two by two. ...la tua pace ...che parlar ti piace ...mentreche il vento, come fa, si tace. He saw them three by three, approaching girls, in green, in rose, in russet, entwining, per l'aer perso in mauve, in purple, quella pacifica oriafiamma, in gold of oriflamme, di rimirar fè più ardenti. But I old men, penitent, leadenfooted, underdarkneath the night: mouth south: tomb womb." [Eolus]
Purgatorio 32
"there remained a period of 10 years, [32.2] 5 months and 18 days during which carnal intercourse had been incomplete" [Ithaca]
Purgatorio 33?
"And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or to Edenville" [Oxen]
Paradiso 13
"Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time." [Oxen]
Paradiso 31
"Rhymes: two men dressed the same, looking the same, two by two. ...la tua pace ...che parlar ti piace ...mentreche il vento, come fa, si tace. He saw them three by three, approaching girls, in green, in rose, in russet, entwining, per l'aer perso in mauve, in purple, quella pacifica oriafiamma, in gold of oriflamme, di rimirar fè più ardenti. But I old men, penitent, leadenfooted, underdarkneath the night: mouth south: tomb womb." [Eolus]
Paradiso 33
"Or she knew him, that second I say, and was but creature of her creature, vergine madre figlia di tuo figlio" [Oxen]"Going to dark bed there was a square round [33.133] Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler." [Ithaca]
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