Day was departing, and the darkening air
\nCalled all earth’s creatures to their evening quiet
\nWhile I alone was preparing as though for war<\/p>\n
To struggle with my journey and with the spirit
\nOf pity, which flawless memory will redraw:
\nO Muses, O genius of art, O memory whose merit<\/p>\n
Has inscribed inwardly those things I saw–
\nHelp me fulfill the perfection of your nature.<\/p>\n
Lo giorno se n’andava, e l’aere bruno m’apparecchiava a sostener la guerra O muse, o alto ingegno, or m’aiutate; — from The Inferno of Dante<\/em><\/a>, translated by Robert Pinsky, Canto II \/ pg. 15. Italian source: DivineComedy.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day was departing, and the darkening air Called all earth’s creatures to their evening quiet While I alone was preparing as though for war To struggle with my journey and with the spirit Of pity, which flawless memory will redraw: O Muses, O genius of art, O memory whose merit Has inscribed inwardly those things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,4572,3717,4801,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntoglieva li animai che sono in terra
\nda le fatiche loro; e io sol uno<\/em><\/p>\n
\ns\u00ec del cammino e s\u00ec de la pietate,
\nche ritrarr\u00e0 la mente che non erra.<\/em><\/p>\n
\no mente che scrivesti ci\u00f2 ch’io vidi,
\nqui si parr\u00e0 la tua nobilitate. <\/em><\/p>\n