Dante, The Divine Comedy, Hell, III, 1-9

LA DIVINA COMMEDIA  di  Dante Alighieri

INFERNO

Canto III

(Entrata all’Inferno)

`Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.

Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore;
fecemi la divina podestate,
la somma sapïenza e 'l primo amore.

Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate'.





W. Blake, Gates to Hell

The Divine Comedy

by  Dante Alighieri

[translated  by  James Finn Cotter]

HELL

Canto III

(The Gate of Hell)

 

 Through Me Pass into the Painful City,

          Through Me Pass into Eternal Grief,

          Through Me Pass among the Lost People.

 

              Justice Moved My Master-Builder:

           Heavenly Power First Fashioned Me

          With Highest Wisdom and with Primal Love.

 

             Before Me Nothing Was Created That 

          Was Not Eternal, and I Last Eternally.

          All Hope Abandon, You Who Enter Here.

G. Doré, The Gate of Hell