1 00:00:08,070 --> 00:00:13,350 John Dixon button, if you don't know of him, well, I rather I should say, John Dixon, 2 00:00:13,350 --> 00:00:23,310 Martin is somebody that you almost certainly won't know unless you've got the book of John Dixon button illustrations, 3 00:00:23,310 --> 00:00:28,530 which I edited, which came out a few months ago. 4 00:00:28,530 --> 00:00:33,720 These illustrations by John Dixon Button were made in the 1890s. 5 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:39,540 They were for a translation of the inferno by one George Musgrave. 6 00:00:39,540 --> 00:00:47,190 They appeared in the translation when it was published in 1953, 7 00:00:47,190 --> 00:00:52,950 a year after the death of John Dixon button, a year after the death of George Musgrove. 8 00:00:52,950 --> 00:00:59,670 Since then, they've been hidden away, and the place where they been hidden is Lady Margaret Hall Oxford, 9 00:00:59,670 --> 00:01:04,950 because they've been left to a Lady Margaret Hall by George Musgrove, 10 00:01:04,950 --> 00:01:11,280 who had them had copyright of their own and had quite a large body of Dante material. 11 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,960 All of that down to material, including the drawings, will have to the college. 12 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:22,410 For some decades, the drawings were displayed in one of the corridors, which came to be called [INAUDIBLE] Passage. 13 00:01:22,410 --> 00:01:29,610 The drawings were then taken down, but the name stayed and it still held passage. 14 00:01:29,610 --> 00:01:38,730 They are very fine drawings, which do I'm certain deserve to be seen by a wider public. 15 00:01:38,730 --> 00:01:47,730 When I say wider public, I really mean a public of any sort whatsoever, because the drawing simply sat in a poster of all the coloured, 16 00:01:47,730 --> 00:01:56,820 which is where they were when I first came to this collection, then in a filing cabinet at the base, the base of the library. 17 00:01:56,820 --> 00:02:00,840 So they are unknown. They should not be note. 18 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:06,810 I think you will appreciate if you go and take a look, which I do hope you will do. 19 00:02:06,810 --> 00:02:15,210 If you haven't done so already and with that little bit of blurb for John Dickson button, 20 00:02:15,210 --> 00:02:27,820 I'll pass over to Nick, who will conduct the poetry proceedings. 21 00:02:27,820 --> 00:02:30,370 All right, I'm as Nick, hopefully, 22 00:02:30,370 --> 00:02:42,100 and I'm the co-editor with Bernard O'Donoghue of the next books that we're launching here on weekend and from which we are going to be reading 23 00:02:42,100 --> 00:02:53,410 and you'll see me bobbing up and down every now and then to introduce the the different readers and the different four of them on video, 24 00:02:53,410 --> 00:03:01,180 actually as well. And first of all, then before I give a bit of an introduction to the book, 25 00:03:01,180 --> 00:03:17,140 I'd like to just give space for publisher Angela Jarman of ARC Publications to say a few words about the project. 26 00:03:17,140 --> 00:03:21,880 Thank you, Nick. I'm absolutely delighted to be here. 27 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,900 This is a very special occasion for Arc. 28 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:37,780 It's the first time we will have come into contact with any of you and we've been working on the book for, well, we've we published it in in July. 29 00:03:37,780 --> 00:03:44,350 But before that, we worked very intensely on it for about three months. 30 00:03:44,350 --> 00:03:52,930 We first heard about this project about three years ago when our translations editor, Jeanne Post-fire, 31 00:03:52,930 --> 00:04:03,670 told us that she'd had a very interesting proposal from Nick to publish a new translation of packet 32 00:04:03,670 --> 00:04:11,170 audio edited by him and Bernadette Donohue to mark the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante's Death. 33 00:04:11,170 --> 00:04:17,470 And we thought it was interesting, but it never really came. 34 00:04:17,470 --> 00:04:25,060 We didn't come face to face with it until earlier this year, and then we realised that this was a very special project. 35 00:04:25,060 --> 00:04:29,350 It was something that it was really a new venture for. 36 00:04:29,350 --> 00:04:35,170 It was a much more academic book than usual poetry books. 37 00:04:35,170 --> 00:04:47,710 We publish a lot of poetry in translation. But here was a completely different sort of translation with, I think, 16 translators, 38 00:04:47,710 --> 00:04:58,450 all Anglophone poets, but bringing a very different feel to the whole volume. 39 00:04:58,450 --> 00:05:03,100 There was an awful lot to do as I was. It was a complicated layout. 40 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:13,660 It was a very detailed manuscript and we had to decide how to lay it out to make sense. 41 00:05:13,660 --> 00:05:24,160 And there was an awful lot of what to read and we were rather daunted, but we buckled down. 42 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:29,170 But I have to say we couldn't have done anything without Nick. 43 00:05:29,170 --> 00:05:34,150 He was absolutely pivotal in the project. He was first stopped. 44 00:05:34,150 --> 00:05:44,830 He presented us with a very clean manuscript. I imagined that he had been working very hard with all the translators for months, if not years. 45 00:05:44,830 --> 00:05:53,590 But, you know, we had this beautifully clean manuscript as we laid it out. 46 00:05:53,590 --> 00:05:58,580 And as you know, various queries arose. 47 00:05:58,580 --> 00:06:04,240 We got in touch with Nick, and he always replied promptly. 48 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:10,180 And then the proofreading, I learnt huge amounts. 49 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:18,220 I didn't. I have to confess, I knew nothing really about Dante and I really enjoyed the proofreading. 50 00:06:18,220 --> 00:06:24,790 But it took I was the best part of two weeks. It was a mammoth job. 51 00:06:24,790 --> 00:06:33,910 But you know, this is although this is one of the most complicated projects we've undertaken. 52 00:06:33,910 --> 00:06:39,250 It really is one of the books that we're most proud to have published. 53 00:06:39,250 --> 00:06:51,520 And, you know, today brings everything together, and it's wonderful to meet many of the people who made the book what it is. 54 00:06:51,520 --> 00:07:10,480 So thank you very much. Thank you very much for the four, for the kind words, Angela. 55 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:16,040 And it was a pleasure to work with you as I should be seeing a debut gracious deed, 56 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:22,730 which is as how some scribes and the copying of manuscripts of the media. 57 00:07:22,730 --> 00:07:26,900 I mean, it could spend all of my allotted five minutes on giving thanks. 58 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:29,180 And first of all, to the publishers, 59 00:07:29,180 --> 00:07:39,350 the publishers Angela and Tony Award for accepting and producing the volume in such an elegant style to also Angela, 60 00:07:39,350 --> 00:07:46,250 as mentioned, the editor of the series. Professor Jean Post-fire of UEA. 61 00:07:46,250 --> 00:07:53,570 She agreed to support the project on the very day we submitted the proposal and continued 62 00:07:53,570 --> 00:07:59,930 to deal just as promptly with any ongoing questions and for debt for today's arrangements. 63 00:07:59,930 --> 00:08:02,900 More things more immediately for today's arrangement. 64 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:10,370 We're hugely grateful fall to l'image for hosting us to my friend and colleague Peter Haynsworth, 65 00:08:10,370 --> 00:08:16,280 who is also a contributor to the Volume two of the expert organising team of Helena 66 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:22,220 Beveridge and Aaron Woodley to torch the Oxford Research Centre in the humanities 67 00:08:22,220 --> 00:08:27,110 for publicity about these Don't--you Festival events and to the Oxford Dante 68 00:08:27,110 --> 00:08:34,370 Society and Richard Cooper for generously funding the drinks that will follow. 69 00:08:34,370 --> 00:08:41,210 Going much back, much further in time to the genesis of this project as poets in purgatory. 70 00:08:41,210 --> 00:08:48,860 A project to present Dante through different poetic voices has evolved over the opening decades of this millennium. 71 00:08:48,860 --> 00:08:57,080 It was perhaps first inspired by those 2001 Southbank readings of Cantu's from the inferno, 72 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:02,450 in which three of our present contributors indeed took part. 73 00:09:02,450 --> 00:09:08,660 One of these contributors, another very good friend and colleague, Bernard O'Donohue, 74 00:09:08,660 --> 00:09:19,640 became closely involved at the start and has nurtured the whole project not only at a sequence of reassuring editorial lunches, 75 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:27,710 but also crucially by recruiting many of the crew of this lovely chill del ingenue. 76 00:09:27,710 --> 00:09:35,540 And it's that crew, the contributing poets who deserve huge thanks for bringing us now into the harbour. 77 00:09:35,540 --> 00:09:39,860 Six of them here in the front row, you will hear reading in person today. 78 00:09:39,860 --> 00:09:51,860 Others have contributed by video. One of them, sadly, is not present in either form, but his work will be here. 79 00:09:51,860 --> 00:10:01,010 The poet and scholar Michael O'Neill began his contributions to poets in purgatory as early as 2008, 80 00:10:01,010 --> 00:10:14,230 and following his death in 2019, we decided to dedicate the whole volume Legato Contemporary, as Dante puts it, to his memory. 81 00:10:14,230 --> 00:10:22,630 We'll be hearing some of his work later on, the poets have rendered this purgatory with a rich diversity, 82 00:10:22,630 --> 00:10:30,190 as Angela's pointed out, rich diversity of Anglophone voices, speaking from a variety of cultures and in a range of forms, 83 00:10:30,190 --> 00:10:37,810 from blank verse to varieties of taps Auriemma, as well as this complete translation in the book. 84 00:10:37,810 --> 00:10:45,670 We also included as a prelude a group of poems that reflect upon this, this second part of Dante's Cambodia, 85 00:10:45,670 --> 00:10:53,560 and as a postscript, we have included in the book translations of some lyrics by Dante, his predecessors and contemporaries. 86 00:10:53,560 --> 00:11:00,910 We're now going to sample some of this diversity, beginning with that prelude of poems called about purgatory. 87 00:11:00,910 --> 00:11:23,780 And the first of these is on video, and it's reading by the of a poem by the New Zealand poet Jan Kemp. 88 00:11:23,780 --> 00:11:30,620 At the beginning of this poem, I quote two lines from Dante Algerie. 89 00:11:30,620 --> 00:11:43,290 I turned to the right and considered the other poem and saw four stars never seen except by the first people. 90 00:11:43,290 --> 00:11:49,440 The last word in the poem is the Maori word for love. 91 00:11:49,440 --> 00:12:00,650 Wrote. Crooks Australis tape pactio out to hit the Southern Cross. 92 00:12:00,650 --> 00:12:07,010 He never saw this coming out of four stars. He knew they existed. 93 00:12:07,010 --> 00:12:19,670 Hot map of home our palm. Hemisphere where we know where we are upside down near the pole. 94 00:12:19,670 --> 00:12:32,810 Somehow, he knew Eaton is here, and we hand on the sunrise from Mount Karani, a flaming cabinet. 95 00:12:32,810 --> 00:12:45,770 And stunted Pilgrim could have climbed up out of the shaft, plumper Jerusalem to stand ankle deep in the Pacific. 96 00:12:45,770 --> 00:13:02,510 On a show near the kerb, medicks awestruck at seeing his cardinal virtues in cannot wait on the milk, Niasse and Taurus. 97 00:13:02,510 --> 00:13:28,120 Justice, Prudence, Temperance and fortitude rocks the gods had flung out of the back yard, making space to plant the herbs of faith, hope and aroha. 98 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:43,170 Two items. First, his own poem, Interim Auto, and then Michael O'Neill's poem detained Jamie. 99 00:13:43,170 --> 00:13:48,750 This is an image, the poem is from way back about 20 years ago, I wrote. 100 00:13:48,750 --> 00:14:00,650 It takes an image from purgatory. Nicole Bernard would know maybe 20 or 21. 101 00:14:00,650 --> 00:14:10,170 Dante uses this word. Harimoto corresponds to tremor or in contemporary Italian terremoto an earthquake. 102 00:14:10,170 --> 00:14:21,390 So it just the playing of that ultra motor inside the mountain earth begins to 103 00:14:21,390 --> 00:14:27,960 move its joints and spring the links that pegged it down the funds of chests. 104 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:38,790 The tchotchkes and wedges of feldspar and chirps a daylight's owl screws back from rock that's spilling derelicts her nest, 105 00:14:38,790 --> 00:14:44,800 then quiet plugs the air, a twist of wax behind the quiet. 106 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:52,710 A code of silence hums until Earth moves again, this time in earnest, dumb, 107 00:14:52,710 --> 00:14:58,920 mutters so dumb mutters rigid tongue delirium run at the verge of the crack, 108 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:10,320 the gapes at the heart of things that widens the normal watchtower from its sunken gateway to the parapet as the tide and coils. 109 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:19,710 This means in purgatory, a soul pinned to the rock has broken free. 110 00:15:19,710 --> 00:15:39,720 More of that. Nick mentioned the dedication to my brother in law from Michael O'Neill and my sister poses a bit of a note about that too. 111 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:47,370 Like to read from the beginning of Michael's writing life in his critical work as well as in his poems. 112 00:15:47,370 --> 00:15:52,110 He was a constant figure of reference and renewal. 113 00:15:52,110 --> 00:16:02,530 So he was very pleased to be included in after Dante and would, I'm sure, have been delighted by the book's dedication to him. 114 00:16:02,530 --> 00:16:18,890 I'll read Michael's poem. I mean, personally, myself, Michael and Nancy, there's a sense that anyway, detained. 115 00:16:18,890 --> 00:16:23,810 Day after day, the sky, a tempered blue that's hardly changed in Hue. 116 00:16:23,810 --> 00:16:30,290 You start trying to grasp the purgatory of the envious with islets sown. 117 00:16:30,290 --> 00:16:38,690 The late I was forgiven, but not quite forgotten. The slothful racing ahead soon out of sight. 118 00:16:38,690 --> 00:16:49,700 The discourse and the glimmering of heaven. All these to change you from the summer's slow, accelerating slide towards oblivion. 119 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:56,870 The swimmers and the water's undertow. The punches and the tough resolves in tatters. 120 00:16:56,870 --> 00:17:05,300 The minor torments dealt by mid-June. Mosquito and too much sun inertia over great matters. 121 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:08,540 The rubbing sandal and the brand new blister. 122 00:17:08,540 --> 00:17:21,140 The hint of violence after silence shatters the litany intoned each night of other, if also flawed, accounts being you raised the more content to be. 123 00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:35,360 There were no rain nor hail, no snow, no Jew could fall and where thoughts grew into a dream whose substance has not vanished, 124 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:44,750 as if belief survived, as if in fact it flourished. 125 00:17:44,750 --> 00:17:55,180 It's. Thanks, Jamie. 126 00:17:55,180 --> 00:18:04,240 And I do remember Michael mentioning when he first took on this translation task that it would be a good holiday 127 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:15,880 project and there were sort of echoes of of holiday experiences in that the next our next reader is Bernard Mike, 128 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:25,270 revered co-editor Bonuses Donohue, who is going to read We're now onto Cantu's from the Purgatory. 129 00:18:25,270 --> 00:18:42,000 And Bernard is going to read to part of Cantu to the second half of Canto two, in which Dante meets Casa de La. 130 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:50,120 Well, but I have to say initially is very obvious, which is that I'm hugely grateful to Nick for overstating so much my involvement. 131 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:57,890 I mean, I was a I was a strongly encouraging presence and some of the meetings beforehand, but the work is all Nick's really into. 132 00:18:57,890 --> 00:19:06,050 It's been wonderful being in his hands and we're extremely grateful to our for doing such amazingly beautiful job with the book. 133 00:19:06,050 --> 00:19:13,490 And it's it's staggering, really. So, so that's the things, but my version is very it's very plain style. 134 00:19:13,490 --> 00:19:18,860 In fact, it could be called blank versus some a blank canvas, I think. 135 00:19:18,860 --> 00:19:26,540 And it's at the furthest removed from following the formalities of the original letter streamer and anything else, really. 136 00:19:26,540 --> 00:19:30,350 And the second, well, you know, and sure. 137 00:19:30,350 --> 00:19:41,120 But the second part of Canto two is and Dante and Virgil have fun and still in the hands of kids who have moved on, 138 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:55,980 and they see the people being brought in the newcomers to focus audio and by the angel and the the newcomers are surprised to see Dante in particular. 139 00:19:55,980 --> 00:20:06,920 Of course, the spirits who are spotted by my briefing that I was still alive for so astonished that they all turned pale 140 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:12,860 and just the way a crowd will gather to hear the latest news from a messenger carrying the olive branch. 141 00:20:12,860 --> 00:20:15,770 And no one cares if they're trampling each other. 142 00:20:15,770 --> 00:20:26,770 So these spirits blessed, though they all were jostled for a good view of my face, distracted from their path towards perfection. 143 00:20:26,770 --> 00:20:35,590 Then I saw one of them push right to the front to hug me with such particular affection that he inspired me to do the same to him. 144 00:20:35,590 --> 00:20:46,990 Shadows with substance only on the surface, three times my arms closed up behind him and passed straight through him back onto my chest. 145 00:20:46,990 --> 00:20:58,080 I flushed embarrassed, I suppose. And then this shadow pulled backwards with a smile and a following unsupported nearly fell over. 146 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:03,840 Gently, he told me, I must take it easy. And then I knew who it was. 147 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:13,390 I begged him to pause a while there and to talk to me. He answered me just as I like you as a living body freed of it. 148 00:21:13,390 --> 00:21:17,260 I like you still. So yes, I would pose with you. 149 00:21:17,260 --> 00:21:25,960 Where are you going? Dear Kassala, when I've made this journey, I'll be returning back to where I live. 150 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,940 But what have you been robbed of so much time? 151 00:21:29,940 --> 00:21:39,210 He said to me, no, no injustice has been done me, if the angel who picks when and whom he pleases has chosen many times to leave me here. 152 00:21:39,210 --> 00:21:44,310 His action executes the will of justice for three months. 153 00:21:44,310 --> 00:21:49,350 It is true he's taken out without a protest, whoever wants to go. 154 00:21:49,350 --> 00:21:58,200 I was facing the shore of the Tiber as Wilshire meets the sea and so turns salty when I was with mercy gathered in by him. 155 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:08,150 He's flown just no directly to that harbour because that is where they all first assemble those who are not condemned to sink to [INAUDIBLE]. 156 00:22:08,150 --> 00:22:13,490 I said to him, if this new disposition of things has not destroyed your memory or your gifts, 157 00:22:13,490 --> 00:22:20,000 which used to satisfy every desire I had, please will you? 158 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:29,060 Comforts my poor soul with music. It's totally worn out with coming here encumbered still with my whole earthly body. 159 00:22:29,060 --> 00:22:38,910 Love speaking with great yearning in my mind. He started then to sing so very sweetly that the memory of it still echoes deep within me. 160 00:22:38,910 --> 00:22:46,890 My God, I hate myself and all the people with us were so enchanted by us that the minds of all of us had room for nothing else. 161 00:22:46,890 --> 00:22:56,400 We were all taken up with concentration on his singing and Kato and flexibly upright shouted, What are you doing all your idol songs? 162 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:05,530 What is all this negligence and hanging around? Hurry to the mountain to clean off the field stops you seeing the divine. 163 00:23:05,530 --> 00:23:15,460 And just like when doves packing a free to ropes, it's utterly absorbed with the rich pasturing calm without the usual flashiness. 164 00:23:15,460 --> 00:23:24,420 If something comes along that frightens them with a sudden rush to take off from their eating, distracted know by a more pressing concern. 165 00:23:24,420 --> 00:23:33,310 Likewise, I saw this new assembly leave the singing and turn towards the hillside like people scattering off in all directions, 166 00:23:33,310 --> 00:23:36,910 and Virgil and I were as fast as anyone. 167 00:23:36,910 --> 00:23:49,220 My last observation to say that I replaced my translation of the title of meant it with this line from his translation, 168 00:23:49,220 --> 00:24:09,820 which comes at the end of the book. Thank you. Very. That's next, but I think it was lying from a walking element to me, Nigeria is better, right? 169 00:24:09,820 --> 00:24:22,300 Our next contribution is via video, and it's Alicia Sterling's poet and translator who lives in Greece, but is has connexions with LNH. 170 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:36,970 She translated for us both Cantu's three and 29, and her reading is going to be of the the second half of Canto three, 171 00:24:36,970 --> 00:24:48,970 where Dante encounters Manfred in the amongst the elite, the souls of the late repentant in A. Purgatory. 172 00:24:48,970 --> 00:25:04,490 Count to three is Elisha Sterling's. I'm going to read a section from camp to three. 173 00:25:04,490 --> 00:25:08,460 My name is Alisha Stallings and Virgil and Dante. 174 00:25:08,460 --> 00:25:16,760 I've met a crowd of souls oh, chosen souls whose ends were good, said Virgil. 175 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,350 By that piece sublime that waits you, as I've understood. Tell us the way. 176 00:25:21,350 --> 00:25:25,460 How can we climb? Where is the mountain slope less steep? 177 00:25:25,460 --> 00:25:30,980 Who learns more or less abides last time? And just as from the fold come cheap? 178 00:25:30,980 --> 00:25:38,390 First one and two, then three, the flock stand meek and faces Earth, where keep and if one walks, the rest will walk. 179 00:25:38,390 --> 00:25:43,280 And when he stops huddled in place, meek, mild, not knowing why they bark. 180 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:50,390 And so a few with modest face bellwethers of that happy crew approached us at a solemn pace when those 181 00:25:50,390 --> 00:25:56,960 in front could see eyes through a shadow rightward in its aim to the cliff and rent the lights in to. 182 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:04,280 They hesitated as they came and shrank back somewhat and the rest not knowing why did just the same. 183 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:10,490 No need to ask for, as you've guessed, a human body cleaves the light upon the ground, Virgil confessed. 184 00:26:10,490 --> 00:26:18,620 Trust me. Don't wonder at the sight he would not seek to scale this wall where he, not backed by heavens, might then turn around. 185 00:26:18,620 --> 00:26:24,380 We heard them call to us that where the caravan waving is back and lead us all 186 00:26:24,380 --> 00:26:29,630 wherever you are once all began turned back to face me as you go and recognise me, 187 00:26:29,630 --> 00:26:39,770 if you can. I turned and stared handsome, just so fair haired with noble aspect blessed but one eyebrow split with a blow. 188 00:26:39,770 --> 00:26:47,570 Humbly, I could not attest to knowing him, and at my mild denial, he showed high on his breast, a wound I Manfred. 189 00:26:47,570 --> 00:26:50,660 And he smiled, grandson of Empress Constance. 190 00:26:50,660 --> 00:26:58,550 Please, when you go back, seek out my child, their ancestors of Sicily's and arrogance pride see that she knows the truth. 191 00:26:58,550 --> 00:27:04,970 That when these injuries pierced my flesh with lethal blows, I gave myself to him and cried. 192 00:27:04,970 --> 00:27:21,490 Who always willing mercy shows dire were my sins and yet so wide, infinite goodness and embrace that all who seek it fit inside. 193 00:27:21,490 --> 00:27:28,900 On an island where I'm working, Jeremy McKendrick, I'm afraid quite hard today. 194 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:36,330 And he's going to read now his own translation of the first the opening of count to eight. 195 00:27:36,330 --> 00:27:51,040 Jamie. Thanks, Nick. 196 00:27:51,040 --> 00:28:00,670 It was already the hour at which seafarers turned tenderly towards the vanished shore and the two friends who paid them farewell. 197 00:28:00,670 --> 00:28:11,470 They are the novice pilgrim Thiel's heart stricken to hear far off the rolling clang of bells that seem to mourn the day's decline. 198 00:28:11,470 --> 00:28:21,040 When my ears began to close the portals as I stared at one of the souls who had risen to call for quiet had something to tell. 199 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:30,880 He joined together and lifted both his palms, but his eyes were on the east as if to say Why should I care for any lights but yours? 200 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:42,130 So devotedly and with such sweet notes, did take Lucas Sun rise from his throat that I lost all sense of self and my senses reeled well. 201 00:28:42,130 --> 00:28:51,970 The others are sweetly and devotedly accompanied that soul through every verse, keeping their eyes fixed on the wailing stones. 202 00:28:51,970 --> 00:29:03,070 Now read to sharpen your gaze for here. True truths covering as thin as goals, so to pass beyond will ask for little force. 203 00:29:03,070 --> 00:29:09,460 I saw that silent one and August company stunned fixing their eyes upon the sky, 204 00:29:09,460 --> 00:29:15,160 poised between hope and expectancy, and I saw two angels swooping downwards. 205 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,780 Each brandished, so each brandished a flaming sword. 206 00:29:19,780 --> 00:29:23,680 Its end blunted. Instead of being pointed. 207 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:34,810 The regiments, the green of bright new leaves fanned by the wind of their green wings, rippled and fluted and falls behind their flights. 208 00:29:34,810 --> 00:29:43,600 One of the pair lights it just above us, the other opposite so that effectively all the souls between them were protected. 209 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:54,130 The blonde hair could be clearly seen, but the eye recoiled from the countenance, confused by all the radiance from the Virgin's lamp. 210 00:29:54,130 --> 00:30:05,530 They've made their descent, so, Delos said to guard this valley from the serpent, who's a rival's eminence, that's not knowing when it would appear. 211 00:30:05,530 --> 00:30:13,900 I looked around and chills with fear. Huddled close beside my trusted guide then said Sodano, let don't. 212 00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:22,990 Let's go down to the valley to speak with the great souls who will surely welcome you both with great acclaim. 213 00:30:22,990 --> 00:30:45,480 Q. Next week to Angela Layton translated Cantu's nine to 11 the three countries in the collection. 214 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:58,290 So she did. She's also translated. She has translated 09:59 closely, but she preferred and I liked the idea of including this point. 215 00:30:58,290 --> 00:31:06,630 Her poem, which actually appears in the Prelude, is a poem about purgatory, which is entitled to Dante on reflection. 216 00:31:06,630 --> 00:31:16,760 Canto 10 Purgatory. Angela. Thank you. 217 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:29,180 I'm going to do what Jeremy did and just put some water. 218 00:31:29,180 --> 00:31:39,310 All right. This is the counter you'll remember in which Dante is oddly distracted and waylaid 219 00:31:39,310 --> 00:31:46,810 by beautiful artworks that he sees in the purgatory and particularly by a marble, 220 00:31:46,810 --> 00:31:58,210 the leaf of the Annunciation. So in this poem, which starts off being a fairly close translation, 221 00:31:58,210 --> 00:32:06,070 but then moves away and becomes a kind of commentary, I'm trying to keep to the rhythm of the original. 222 00:32:06,070 --> 00:32:18,160 That's the four beats to a line. But I, unlike Alicia's wonderful suprema, I let lime just happen when it can. 223 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:28,900 I think I'm trying to bring out something modern in Dante here, and it's that weird surrealism in the landscape, 224 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:41,500 as well as the element of comedy in the poem, but perhaps to a kind of sense of questioning that goes a little bit against the theological grade. 225 00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:58,970 Dante on reflection. So this is the way to go, however you summarise the sin, calibrate the soul to follow a road to the ends of the world. 226 00:32:58,970 --> 00:33:05,300 That's door clang shut. Was I out or in? 227 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:14,540 Over my shoulder, you to see lapsed lot's wife was salted to an upright stack, 228 00:33:14,540 --> 00:33:29,600 but he and I pressed on through to a [INAUDIBLE] stonewalled yet finding some permissive path that pitched and rolled under our feet. 229 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:34,850 My dear poet warned me, Now use your art. 230 00:33:34,850 --> 00:33:39,740 Just dance. Balance, dare to dream. 231 00:33:39,740 --> 00:33:45,470 How a passage might carry you through and out. 232 00:33:45,470 --> 00:33:53,900 It was madness. I knew sheer lunacy to think we could find our way in the waning moonlight. 233 00:33:53,900 --> 00:34:02,610 Squeeze our shapes through the eye of a needle to clear this world and discover another. 234 00:34:02,610 --> 00:34:11,550 But we did somehow emerging elsewhere on a plane, a blank, a flatness, 235 00:34:11,550 --> 00:34:23,390 so sheer we stepped out blindly trying to find our feet designed by a ground that stretched to nowhere. 236 00:34:23,390 --> 00:34:29,200 Lonely as [INAUDIBLE], Byron, as a waste. 237 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:43,920 And though it seemed endless measure less to man yet a mountain rose and near where we sat and edge gave suddenly onto nothingness. 238 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:54,810 I searched the fathomless scene all round trying to map that country of the mind, its wild carousel of heights and depths. 239 00:34:54,810 --> 00:35:04,290 And that was when I saw suddenly quite close to a cliff of White rising beside me. 240 00:35:04,290 --> 00:35:13,560 Impossible. It seemed a marble sheet, but beautifully finely carved in relief. 241 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:18,690 Finer than porcelain. Sharper than light than icicles. 242 00:35:18,690 --> 00:35:33,930 Shaped by nature overnight. And I traced an angel with the grace of a man announcing all hail wings rippled with flight. 243 00:35:33,930 --> 00:35:46,680 The words in my ears from the hollow of his mouth matched my deepest heart's desire, as if the scaffold marble sliced sounds out of air. 244 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:51,210 Was it memories? Knife and a palombi? 245 00:35:51,210 --> 00:35:57,030 No whiteness met like breathlessness. My outstretched hand. 246 00:35:57,030 --> 00:36:03,790 I could dream caress each dumbfounded sense. 247 00:36:03,790 --> 00:36:15,750 In deaths, heartland of pain and penitence, we're sweating wounded souls, staggered up the helix track sorry. 248 00:36:15,750 --> 00:36:23,170 Flesh bound states bound for the summit to be freed from themselves. 249 00:36:23,170 --> 00:36:27,940 I paused to follow the Stones allure. 250 00:36:27,940 --> 00:36:40,750 It's speaking lines flickering, a cry ancient, a story rehearsed every day and wishing littered these faithful prayers. 251 00:36:40,750 --> 00:36:51,980 And then I remembered my own heart. My own art's still horde of echoes gathered from ages before. 252 00:36:51,980 --> 00:37:05,390 The river from which, no, so the. Three times that she'd fled fugitive as dream, my sweet poet nudged me. 253 00:37:05,390 --> 00:37:12,560 It was time to go, but I ducked, delayed, slunk round to stay. 254 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:24,980 Gazing at that Angel's momentous invitation to sing death's 9-1-1 to a child while pierced with foresight. 255 00:37:24,980 --> 00:37:33,470 Any mother denies she knelt to answer with heart broken eyes. 256 00:37:33,470 --> 00:37:38,210 So something truer than right or wrong. 257 00:37:38,210 --> 00:37:51,940 The measured use and heavenly rewards gave me pause and held me dreaming where that marble effigy gently to the cliff face. 258 00:37:51,940 --> 00:37:59,450 How no arts, no how it's low skill to feel. 259 00:37:59,450 --> 00:38:05,840 Where else but elsewhere, the Dream's own place? 260 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:25,520 I searched since calculus to discover what's grace? 261 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:38,510 Thank you for this wonderful parallel dream story. We now have two contributions on readings on video. 262 00:38:38,510 --> 00:38:46,100 The first of these is from the former poet laureate of Jamaica, Lorna Goodison. 263 00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:55,520 I first encountered Lorna at that Southbank reading of counters from Inferno in in 2001, 264 00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:00,380 when she gave a terrific rendering of what she called Mr. Brown. 265 00:39:00,380 --> 00:39:06,230 That was a brunette or Latina and an infant of 15. 266 00:39:06,230 --> 00:39:12,950 And I was when we got this project going, I was really determined to try to get her, get her to contribute. 267 00:39:12,950 --> 00:39:17,540 And so she did very, very generously, and she has. 268 00:39:17,540 --> 00:39:25,580 She has translated Canto 12, which is one of the Cantu's It on the circle of Pride. 269 00:39:25,580 --> 00:39:32,870 And this is one that I can't do that begins with all those examples of overweening pride, 270 00:39:32,870 --> 00:40:09,830 and you'll see that that no longer exists and gives this kind of inflexion of both Jamaican and in this one instance, West African culture. 271 00:40:09,830 --> 00:40:16,360 Go to purgatory you. Evelyn will collect bullet holes of the same size. 272 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:23,080 The poor soul and me step in step side by side for as long as my good teacher allowed it. 273 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:32,200 But when he said forward up himself and leave him for like men who set out for the keys, each was received by paddling their own canoe. 274 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:42,280 I raise up myself and stand up to my full height so that I could walk tall, dignified and upright, although my thoughts still did bend down low. 275 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,780 I moved on and was following most obedient in my master's footsteps. 276 00:40:46,780 --> 00:40:51,070 We were already picking up pace when he checked me, said lawyer GIS. 277 00:40:51,070 --> 00:40:59,530 In order to see a way clear, you need to set up what is on his walk, where where you are lifting up and putting down your feet. 278 00:40:59,530 --> 00:41:03,760 Just as holding in some church floors, tombs are inlaid underfoot, 279 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:09,800 so the details of a life lived are engraved never to be forgotten, always preserved. 280 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:14,620 So a memorial to the departed remains the gaze on when their dear ones go there. 281 00:41:14,620 --> 00:41:20,950 A picture brings tears on when the tender hearted appears by memory to one side. 282 00:41:20,950 --> 00:41:32,440 I saw a depiction of that same one he created more handsome than his terrible matinee idol, reeling down like lightning from the skies. 283 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:42,850 On the other side, I saw Iris, who scammed us struck by lightning bolt and lying down their comatose cramp and called upon to ground. 284 00:41:42,850 --> 00:41:55,030 I saw those timbers pile on Mars, gone men all bearing arms, gazing at the scattered body parts of their father, Joe and other big time gangsters. 285 00:41:55,030 --> 00:42:03,400 Nimrod I saw demented under his mighty works, confused and dazed, looking in vain to his followers, 286 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:09,460 spangled in bling and glitter in the land of Shiner O'Neil being. 287 00:42:09,460 --> 00:42:17,620 I see your eyes running with cold water that is OCO representing on that pathway betwixt seven and seven dead. 288 00:42:17,620 --> 00:42:26,710 Pick me on what a subject for LA meant your working soul stopped by your own sword on top of Mount Gabor, 289 00:42:26,710 --> 00:42:32,080 where need of rain or dew water will hear after fall or tricky? 290 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:38,890 Far and Nancy is just so I see Oh there so half a spade are full of grief. 291 00:42:38,890 --> 00:42:46,060 Unfriended on the threads of your mischief works spun on the web or airborne? 292 00:42:46,060 --> 00:42:55,820 No, you can no longer be a menace to us with your hard face. Fuzzy, a chariot racing to come hollow where overbearing statue. 293 00:42:55,820 --> 00:43:05,910 Unseen to hundreds, stony path was the ultimate highest price as he made his own mother pay after she betrayed his father for jewellery. 294 00:43:05,910 --> 00:43:13,170 I'm there also, I beheld a sequence of Senator Kerry being shot up in the temple by the young assassins. 295 00:43:13,170 --> 00:43:22,920 You trained and exited and left him for dead. Is sure the troubles, the endless cycle of violence, strife and riots. 296 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:32,450 Yes, that must set off when she open up her mouth and brag to my Sirius always bologna want. 297 00:43:32,450 --> 00:43:43,040 Will his blood I will follow up of. It should only a Syrian run like Bolt from the road after Hala Furnace death. 298 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:48,770 And in the graphic images, we saw the corpse of the slaughter don himself. 299 00:43:48,770 --> 00:43:56,190 I saw Troy the city. Once green, it fell to ashes ruins or ill clad man. 300 00:43:56,190 --> 00:44:03,000 How you were pictured in those scenes reduced, reduced, reduced. 301 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:12,150 What skilled master artist did Light and Shakya rescue all those features, or was it made them appear so impressive? 302 00:44:12,150 --> 00:44:19,260 The bona fide art lovers take it as a table with their dead for. 303 00:44:19,260 --> 00:44:21,450 The one supposed to be alive? 304 00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:32,130 Look at me on you any I to those events as they could not see any more than me when I beheld the scenes upon the pavement. 305 00:44:32,130 --> 00:44:40,170 So exalted itself. On we sure did. Yes, your children of Eve don't bother to even look under your feet. 306 00:44:40,170 --> 00:44:45,610 Next thing you will go and see the evil path you are treading. 307 00:44:45,610 --> 00:44:53,410 So by now, we pass further around the mountain, leaving more of the Sun behind, and I certainly was not paying much mine. 308 00:44:53,410 --> 00:45:02,650 I've been taking notice of when he, who always walked in front on the lookout, gave a heads up, do not be looking idly about. 309 00:45:02,650 --> 00:45:10,400 This is how you must proceed as forward. Be attentive. CNN is not preparing to come this way. 310 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:16,430 We hold on a six had made of the day is coming back from service, all due respect. 311 00:45:16,430 --> 00:45:19,190 Get your radio, set yourself right. 312 00:45:19,190 --> 00:45:29,220 So the sheriff will consent to bear our guide as we take of what path all this stuff this day will never dawn again. 313 00:45:29,220 --> 00:45:38,520 Second, second and last video contribution is from a very experienced translator of Dante, Steve Ellis, 314 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:52,200 who recently completed having complete, having translated and fellow in 1994, then has now completed the whole of the local media. 315 00:45:52,200 --> 00:46:08,220 And he allowed us to reproduce four of his Cantu's in the in the book, and here he is reading the account of the envious Canto 14, 316 00:46:08,220 --> 00:46:42,370 the Kanta, which explores the relations between the nobility in Tuscany and in the Romania. 317 00:46:42,370 --> 00:46:47,380 Who is it? Rounding on Mt. Hood before death has followed him up? 318 00:46:47,380 --> 00:46:53,090 Who could open and shut his eyes? I have no idea, but he's not alone. 319 00:46:53,090 --> 00:46:59,160 You're dearer to them, you ask, but do it nicely, so [INAUDIBLE] speak. 320 00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:04,740 So two schools we're talking of be led to each other on my right. 321 00:47:04,740 --> 00:47:15,330 They're raising their faces to speak. One said, Oh, so bound for heaven, but still growing fixed in your flesh for charity sake. 322 00:47:15,330 --> 00:47:28,170 Please tell us who you are. Well, from your state of grace, a measles as a thing never heard of must die through middle Tuscany, 323 00:47:28,170 --> 00:47:35,580 a stream of coils from a felter order a 100 plus miles in length from beside it. 324 00:47:35,580 --> 00:47:43,410 I bring this body. There's no point saying my name, since so far it's not much known. 325 00:47:43,410 --> 00:47:53,000 If I could flesh out your meaning by my understanding, he replies, it's the avenue you're referring to. 326 00:47:53,000 --> 00:48:01,890 The other asks, why did he hide the name of that river like a man concealing something horrible? 327 00:48:01,890 --> 00:48:06,030 Well, the soul who is us, this replies, I don't know. 328 00:48:06,030 --> 00:48:14,670 It's good, though this valley is blotted out because from its head in part, that's densest of the mountain chain. 329 00:48:14,670 --> 00:48:25,860 The Pelorus was broken off from to where it finally gets to restore what the sky absorbs from the sea, from where each river has slowed. 330 00:48:25,860 --> 00:48:33,270 Virtue is seen as an enemy fled by all like a snake by some curse of the place or 331 00:48:33,270 --> 00:48:40,290 by bad practise that nature's have so changed the people of that woeful valley. 332 00:48:40,290 --> 00:48:49,970 It's as if they have Cersei as pastor. Amongst filthy pigs, whose feeding should be acorn's no human food. 333 00:48:49,970 --> 00:49:02,480 It begins its miserable be and is coming down, it meets Kurz next full of snarling, empty of power that turns its melts away and scorn. 334 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:12,050 It rolls on down. And as it swells that accursed luckless ditch, he finds all the dogs become wolves. 335 00:49:12,050 --> 00:49:21,790 And then, all through its deep gorges, he meets such a set of crafty foxes they don't fear any trap being set. 336 00:49:21,790 --> 00:49:31,230 I don't care that others hear me that good for this man, if he notes what's true spirit discloses to me. 337 00:49:31,230 --> 00:49:39,780 I see your grandson now, Hunter of those wolves terrorising the old, the Bank of the Bloody River. 338 00:49:39,780 --> 00:49:50,560 He sells their flesh as it still lives. The butchers of like old meat, a non-league life and his old order in blood he exits. 339 00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:58,350 Dahlia Wood left so that in a thousand years, it will never received the same. 340 00:49:58,350 --> 00:50:06,420 Like people hearing awful news show woeful faces as they listen wherever the threats come from. 341 00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:16,110 So I saw the other so attentive getting disturbed and distressed as he grasped what was spoken, the words of Ward. 342 00:50:16,110 --> 00:50:22,770 The others look made me eager for their name, so I asked, pleading with them. 343 00:50:22,770 --> 00:50:29,790 The one who first spoke to me began. You want me to behave to you as you wouldn't do to me. 344 00:50:29,790 --> 00:50:34,770 But since God wants to use you as such a showcase for his grace? 345 00:50:34,770 --> 00:50:40,770 I agree. So I was Guido Del Duca, my blood bird. 346 00:50:40,770 --> 00:50:47,970 So with envy that if I saw anyone's happiness, you'd see my face getting vivid. 347 00:50:47,970 --> 00:50:57,780 I reaped straw from such seed here. O Human Race setting your heart where brotherhood is excluded. 348 00:50:57,780 --> 00:51:02,250 This is really a prise of honour of the House of Kalgoorlie. 349 00:51:02,250 --> 00:51:05,500 But now no one is the heir of Hezbollah. 350 00:51:05,500 --> 00:51:16,770 And not only is his blood shorn of the good graces of living from shore to shore, from the pole to the mountains, it's a wasteland of poisonous twigs. 351 00:51:16,770 --> 00:51:29,100 So too late, which is no for any garden to grow, whereas good lead seal Harry may now deeper Trevor Saddle Guido de Kapena. 352 00:51:29,100 --> 00:51:42,210 Oh, Robert AC. All degenerates now in Bologna was fabulous line well buried in the false skills in finance, a noble offshoot of a modest step. 353 00:51:42,210 --> 00:51:50,550 Don't be amazed. Tuscany If I cry recalling men like Guido de Peralta or Galeano, that's one of ours. 354 00:51:50,550 --> 00:52:00,210 Federico Tinu also in his circle. The Trevor Sarda, another Staggie family, both of them with no successors, knights, 355 00:52:00,210 --> 00:52:07,350 ladies and all the deed sparked by our love and courtesy would now all hearts. 356 00:52:07,350 --> 00:52:18,660 A brutish gold bertino or one vanish away since your family's one of many to die out to avoid contamination. 357 00:52:18,660 --> 00:52:26,000 Tanya Cavallo does well not to breed and Bad Castro car or worse, you spalding. 358 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:38,490 Such a problem brood the Pagani should call a halt to after the devil dies, even though their reputation is gone for good, ogling the phantom limb. 359 00:52:38,490 --> 00:52:45,480 You're OK, since no more are expected now to darken or to derail your line. 360 00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:52,260 But go now, Tusken. All I desire is to weep rather than say more. 361 00:52:52,260 --> 00:53:14,580 Our talk has made me so glum. We are now moving into the later contours of the poem and Michael O'Neill, the late Michael O'Neill, 362 00:53:14,580 --> 00:53:23,220 to whom the volume is dedicated, translated count, who is 21 and 22, as well as part of Council of 28. 363 00:53:23,220 --> 00:53:28,860 And I thought that we would not read it aloud, but I've just put it, 364 00:53:28,860 --> 00:54:19,620 we've just put on screen a few lines from it, and we could just observe a brief silence while we look at them. 365 00:54:19,620 --> 00:54:26,790 Thank you. And I should just point out also that that phrase the soul's free to change its chamber is also 366 00:54:26,790 --> 00:54:35,040 the phrase that is attached to the dedication to Michael O'Neill at the beginning of 2000. 367 00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:45,930 We now have another short message from another contributor, which will be displayed on the screen from Andrew Fitzsimons, 368 00:54:45,930 --> 00:54:53,430 who is working in Japan and has a big new volume of haiku translations coming out. 369 00:54:53,430 --> 00:55:00,900 And he translated three Cantu's 23 to 25. 370 00:55:00,900 --> 00:55:12,280 And he quotes here from the beginning of count to 23. 371 00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:21,630 We now move to two readers to round off the the cantos from the focus for you. 372 00:55:21,630 --> 00:55:34,710 Gene Drake Hot, who is already a very distinguished translator of, amongst other things, the middle English poem Pearl has translated for us. 373 00:55:34,710 --> 00:55:44,850 Cantu's 30 and 31, which, like Perlin, is another encounter a difficult encounter in a paradise garden. 374 00:55:44,850 --> 00:55:49,920 And she's going to read a couple of passages from Cantu's 30 and 31. 375 00:55:49,920 --> 00:56:01,620 Jane. So, yes, I couldn't have been more pleased. 376 00:56:01,620 --> 00:56:07,560 Thank you, Nick and and Bernard, for the suggestion that I I might translate Qantas 30 and 31. 377 00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:14,670 In a way, it has been something of a pilgrimage for me to the wellspring of, you know, visiting the wellspring of that, 378 00:56:14,670 --> 00:56:24,540 of those passages I know so well from Paul written, you know, less than a century later. 379 00:56:24,540 --> 00:56:30,870 So I'm going to read two passages one from each can to brief brief passages, 380 00:56:30,870 --> 00:56:41,700 which which for me felt particularly reminiscent of of of similar echoing moments in the Perl poem that there are two moments where 381 00:56:41,700 --> 00:56:55,320 Dante stands still stilled and dazed by the by the beautiful and and and then reprimanding his scolding presence of Beatrice. 382 00:56:55,320 --> 00:57:08,760 So it's a moment in Canto 30, I'll read when he first sees her, he first sees her again after what he describes as so long ago. 383 00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:15,780 He sees in the visionary procession across the water. And then I'll read the opening of Canto 31, 384 00:57:15,780 --> 00:57:32,190 in which Beatrice confronts Dante directly over over his having fallen so, so easily for earthly pleasures. 385 00:57:32,190 --> 00:57:40,260 I have seen at the beginning of the day the eastern sky, a haze of rosy red, 386 00:57:40,260 --> 00:57:51,000 while all the rest serene and cloudless lies and how the sun's face rising through the air is shadowy and veiled, 387 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:56,910 and how the mist allows the eye to rest and linger there. 388 00:57:56,910 --> 00:58:01,260 So in the same way behind that cloud of flowers, 389 00:58:01,260 --> 00:58:08,550 which blossomed from the angels hands and fell below them in the chariot and around the 390 00:58:08,550 --> 00:58:16,620 figure of a woman appeared to me her dress like a life flame beneath her cloak of green, 391 00:58:16,620 --> 00:58:21,600 her white veil wreathed in olive leaves. 392 00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:33,540 And at that moment, although so much time had passed since when I last stood trembling in her presence, dazed and overcome, 393 00:58:33,540 --> 00:58:52,620 even without looking at her now, my spirit felt the fire of that first love touched to the core by her hidden power. 394 00:58:52,620 --> 00:58:58,350 And this is Beatrice really winding up now. 395 00:58:58,350 --> 00:59:07,110 This is the beginning of of Canto 31, without a trace of hesitation on her lips. 396 00:59:07,110 --> 00:59:17,270 Beatrice continued turning the sword edge of her speech full force towards its tip. 397 00:59:17,270 --> 00:59:23,120 Let us hear your thoughts from there across the river. Tell the truth. 398 00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:29,150 Gain pardon facing such a charge. You must confess. 399 00:59:29,150 --> 00:59:33,590 I stood confused. All force drained out. 400 00:59:33,590 --> 00:59:40,950 I strained to speak. My words were spent before they left my throat. 401 00:59:40,950 --> 00:59:48,870 She waited just a moment, then asked, So is it not the case? 402 00:59:48,870 --> 00:59:54,860 The water hasn't yet erased your darkest memories from you. 403 00:59:54,860 --> 01:00:00,840 Fear and panic together drove my faint reply. 404 01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:25,800 A yes, so quiet on my lips as to be audible only with the eyes. 405 01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:37,080 The it's appropriate that we end the Cantu's, including also a couple of lyrics to the very short lyrics at the very end, 406 01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:50,390 but we're ending the sequence of Cantos with Patrick with Snoop's translation of Canto 33 into full text rema. 407 01:00:50,390 --> 01:01:03,090 And it's very it's very pleasing to to report that that that Cantu was described as admirable in the TLS just recently. 408 01:01:03,090 --> 01:01:13,250 Patrick. Well, good evening and thank you for being here. 409 01:01:13,250 --> 01:01:21,380 We're running a bit short of time, so I will try to restrict my introductory remarks the minimum, as Nick said. 410 01:01:21,380 --> 01:01:27,560 I've attempted to to do this canter into tetes arena, 411 01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:38,060 and I think Dante devised this rhyme scheme to try to make the narrative sort of addictive to the reader. 412 01:01:38,060 --> 01:01:43,910 You just have to read on. Well, I found it addictive as a translator. 413 01:01:43,910 --> 01:01:50,240 And I initially intended just to do a few test sets and then maybe I can talk to. 414 01:01:50,240 --> 01:02:05,480 And I ended up three cantos short of the end of Paradiso in this closing section to the purgatory. 415 01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:19,850 Most of the canto is taken up by a diatribe by a 3K in which he expands an ominous pageant which is taking place in the previous canto. 416 01:02:19,850 --> 01:02:30,020 And this is followed by a diatribe not the first in the comedy and not the last 417 01:02:30,020 --> 01:02:37,730 either against the corruption of the church and predicts divine vengeance to come. 418 01:02:37,730 --> 01:02:44,840 Having finished that, she then instructs Matilda, who is for want of a better word, 419 01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:56,060 a salt nymph who lives in the earthly paradise and who is referred to as the lovely woman in Dante's 420 01:02:56,060 --> 01:03:07,100 text instructs Matilda to take Dante and the soul of stations of 1st century A.D. Roman Poet, 421 01:03:07,100 --> 01:03:19,790 who has managed to wangle himself a place in in purgatory to take them to the River U.A.E, which restores the memory of good actions. 422 01:03:19,790 --> 01:03:30,830 We recall that both Dante and stations had previously been in the River Lisa, which wipes out the memory of sin. 423 01:03:30,830 --> 01:03:43,370 I think there are times when some of us could do with rivers like that anyway, with slower steps and with a brighter sheen. 424 01:03:43,370 --> 01:03:51,860 The Sun was hugging the meridian ring, which varies by the point from which it's seen when as an escort who's accompanying a 425 01:03:51,860 --> 01:03:58,400 group walking before them often will stop if he finds a trace of some strange thing. 426 01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:09,950 Just so the seven women has stopped still near thin shade like mountains cast under trees, green leaves and black flowers on an icy rill. 427 01:04:09,950 --> 01:04:20,730 In front, I thought I saw the Euphrates and Tigris issue from one origin, then flow off like friends parting ill at ease. 428 01:04:20,730 --> 01:04:29,930 You light and glory of all people in the world. What are these waterways that well up here then split from where they both begin? 429 01:04:29,930 --> 01:04:36,310 The answer to my question was to tell you that request, Matilda to reply. 430 01:04:36,310 --> 01:04:43,690 As though she had some censure to dispel, the lovely woman said he has had my account of this and much else. 431 01:04:43,690 --> 01:04:48,340 I have no doubt at least his water did not veil his eye. 432 01:04:48,340 --> 01:04:57,400 Three said perhaps thinking about more pressing things which are well known for slowing the memory blocked his mental vision at. 433 01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:02,050 But see, you know, over there, it's flowing, lead him to it. 434 01:05:02,050 --> 01:05:08,190 And then, as is your use contrived to get his failing powers going? 435 01:05:08,190 --> 01:05:16,710 Like noble souls, which offer no excuse, but take their plan from what another planned as soon as outward signs of set it loose. 436 01:05:16,710 --> 01:05:25,930 The moment she had taken me in hand, the lovely woman moved and said to stations come with him in a womanly command. 437 01:05:25,930 --> 01:05:37,830 Rita, if my manuscript were more capacious to write on, I describe, if not in full, that an actress draught that left me still voracious. 438 01:05:37,830 --> 01:05:43,740 But as it is, this second Canticle has run through all the pages designated. 439 01:05:43,740 --> 01:05:55,400 Arts bridle then makes that impossible. I made my way back feeling renovated from that most holy stream as new plants rise green 440 01:05:55,400 --> 01:06:04,250 with new shoots and reinvigorated pure and prepared to scale the star filled skies. 441 01:06:04,250 --> 01:06:24,880 Thank you. Nearly run through all the pages designated now we're just going to close with a couple of lyrics from the postscript to the volume. 442 01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:36,460 This contains lyrics by predecessors and contemporaries of Dante, and the first of these is someone whom Dante regarded as the great predecessor. 443 01:06:36,460 --> 01:06:51,790 The Occitan poet Ana Daniel and Peter is going to read his one of new Danielle's poems, the poems by Emilio Top. 444 01:06:51,790 --> 01:07:00,430 I love Danielle. We should play the done too much admired and imitated, and one of the things he imitated was the 16A by out and out, Danielle. 445 01:07:00,430 --> 01:07:04,630 We say Stinger is a form the torn out Danielle invented. 446 01:07:04,630 --> 01:07:16,330 He wrote one of the second 16A ever to have been written was written by Dante, and it was following the model of Arnold 16A. 447 01:07:16,330 --> 01:07:20,410 If you don't know what it says, Steiner is very, very quickly assessed. 448 01:07:20,410 --> 01:07:22,540 Is a poem of 36 lines. 449 01:07:22,540 --> 01:07:36,640 Basically, it's got six stanzas and instead of rhymes, it has at the end of each line a particular word which is then repeated throughout the poem. 450 01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:45,970 So there is six words splitting the six lines of the poem, which come in the order let's say a b c d e f stanza two. 451 01:07:45,970 --> 01:07:56,110 You start at the end, so you go f line a line next to the end and next to the beginning neck third from the end. 452 01:07:56,110 --> 01:08:03,400 So from the beginning? Right. So mute them in that way and then you start again in the next stanza. 453 01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:09,490 By the time you get to the end of this, you've done all possible combinations of these six words. 454 01:08:09,490 --> 01:08:10,930 The six words stay the same. 455 01:08:10,930 --> 01:08:20,380 Then at the end, to conclude the whole business, you have three lines forming a kind of armoire in which all six words appear. 456 01:08:20,380 --> 01:08:23,320 We reappear in three lines. 457 01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:39,730 So it's a virtuoso saying you can see why Dante called or had charity called Arnold Daniel the Better Smiths or Fabra del Pas La Maternel, 458 01:08:39,730 --> 01:08:50,050 which was a line that was taken up late T.S. Eliot, you may know, and they'll probably know it in the wasteland and applied to Ezra Pound. 459 01:08:50,050 --> 01:08:56,080 So what Dante was enjoying, I think, was the virtuosity and well, I've tried. 460 01:08:56,080 --> 01:09:01,870 I've kept the six six words the ones up there throughout the poem. 461 01:09:01,870 --> 01:09:10,270 I've faced some more difficulties, though they're not about Daniel, because he had some words that had two meanings. 462 01:09:10,270 --> 01:09:16,270 So the word that was soul is also improbable to sell arms. 463 01:09:16,270 --> 01:09:21,250 That is, to put arms on somebody to to wear armour. 464 01:09:21,250 --> 01:09:31,990 So I somehow had to fiddle around with that. I will read out my version of this, which may have its strains. 465 01:09:31,990 --> 01:09:37,930 But one of the strains, I should say is that in the original, and that is you will hear that certain moment. 466 01:09:37,930 --> 01:09:51,110 The uncle, the designate coming a parent with the phrase the sister of the sister of my uncle, who will be his mother. 467 01:09:51,110 --> 01:09:56,380 OK, this is this is a particular the forced way of doing it, which I think are done. 468 01:09:56,380 --> 01:10:01,840 You enjoyed. I think Duncan Hunter enjoyed it too. 469 01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:09,730 So here we are. Thirty nine lines all together and it's an erotic poem love poem. 470 01:10:09,730 --> 01:10:15,430 Daniel was very much a blunt poem, a sensuous, sensuous, sensual approach. 471 01:10:15,430 --> 01:10:28,000 Dante uses this form in his own most sensual love poems known Beatriz, but number three poems poems about a stony woman on the PetroSA. 472 01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:31,090 Anyway, this is from the proposal. 473 01:10:31,090 --> 01:10:40,300 My heart's letter fixed funds to enter that we cannot tear out of me, nor Neil of Meadlo with vile chung arming his soul. 474 01:10:40,300 --> 01:10:51,820 Since I can't risk hitting with brunch or stick, at least by stealth there, when I have no uncle, shall I enjoy love's joy in the air or chamber? 475 01:10:51,820 --> 01:11:00,850 When I call back to mind the chamber, where to my cost, I know no man can enter all treat me worse than brother could or uncle. 476 01:11:00,850 --> 01:11:06,520 I have no limb, not a shake. No, not a nail. More than a child who has to face this thick skin. 477 01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:11,020 So scared am I? She too much owns my soul. 478 01:11:11,020 --> 01:11:16,090 Her body take me, not her soul and cunningly conceal me in her chamber. 479 01:11:16,090 --> 01:11:23,260 It hurts my heart more than blows from a stick that where she is, her servant cannot enter. 480 01:11:23,260 --> 01:11:29,080 I'll always be to her is flesh to nail, indifferent to reproof or friend or uncle. 481 01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:36,580 Even the sister of my uncle. I did not love so much by this my soul as close to her as finger to its nail. 482 01:11:36,580 --> 01:11:43,630 If she agreed, I'd be with in her chamber lover twists me since my heart is let you down to more than 483 01:11:43,630 --> 01:11:50,900 a strong man playing with his thin stick since flower bloomed first on a dry stick and. 484 01:11:50,900 --> 01:11:59,720 Sir Adam, nephew came or uncle, a love is fine as that my heart feels enter was not, I think, embody in soul. 485 01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:06,350 Whether she goes about or stays in chamber, my heart stays closer to her than a nail. 486 01:12:06,350 --> 01:12:12,410 My heart. The fits and clumps its nail to her more tightly than bark to a stick. 487 01:12:12,410 --> 01:12:18,650 She's Joyce Taylor. It's Palace in this chamber. I love her more than cousin of mine or uncle. 488 01:12:18,650 --> 01:12:23,540 And Paradise will doubly joy my soul if they're my final love. 489 01:12:23,540 --> 01:12:26,300 Ever, man may enter. 490 01:12:26,300 --> 01:12:37,640 Our note dispatches Song of Nail and Uncle to please her with the stick that arms, his soul, his designee by marriage entering chamber. 491 01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:57,840 Thank you. That's a very short item, Dante's, and from a contemporary of Dante's, of course, Ana was a predecessor. 492 01:12:57,840 --> 01:13:06,870 Dante's friend, Chino de Pistoia, around 12, 17, 13, 36, outlived Dante and does not appear in the story. 493 01:13:06,870 --> 01:13:12,930 But he was a poet in the new style and he exchanged sonnets with Dante. 494 01:13:12,930 --> 01:13:25,800 And on Dante's death in 13 21, Chino wrote a commemorative concerné entitled Super Lacoste Amore del Altamonte. 495 01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:33,840 This begins by imagining the climb up the mountain of Parnassus and the muses spring on Hellickson. 496 01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:46,530 But then, with the mention of beer outreach, it also recalls the ascent of mount purgatory and the ascent into paradise. 497 01:13:46,530 --> 01:13:57,060 Up there, love on the crags of that high peak, using the skill and style of poet speech who still can climb. 498 01:13:57,060 --> 01:14:01,540 Now the wings of genius lie broken. 499 01:14:01,540 --> 01:14:12,670 I know well that the waters have run dry within the spring, where all who gaze might see their flaws exposed if they looked carefully upon that glass. 500 01:14:12,670 --> 01:14:20,560 Oh, just true, God, who pardons graciously all those who reached repentance at the end. 501 01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:31,190 Take this keen soul who throughout his whole life tended the plant of love to pay outreaches arms at last. 502 01:14:31,190 --> 01:14:37,844 Thank.