L ' I N F E R N O

PLACE CHARACTERS
V
-
voice only
no voice
LOMBARDY issa = now INF C23 7
ANDES → MANTUA
FIRST
SEEN / HEARD
FIRST
SEEN / HEARD
19
FIRST
SEEN / HEARD
BERGAMO → MILAN
BRESCIA magarà = If only
They abbreviate their words by pronouncing v as
f ,saying nof for nove and vif for vivo
(also in Treviso) also VERONA, VICENZA
→ also MANTUA: SORDELLO
V ADAMO OF BRESCIA ( - ) INF C30 58 - -
CREMONA → MANTUA: SORDELLO
CREMONA BUOSO DE DUERA ( -1266) / POLYHYMNIA
Che hai tu, Bocca?
non ti basta sonar con le mascelle,
se tu non latri? Qual diavol ti tocca?
What is wrong with you, Bocca, is it not enough
that you chatter with your jaws, but you have to
bark too? What devil is at you?
GOTTO
Nr. MANTUA
SORDELLO (1200-1269+) b.GOTTO
fled to Provence when about 29.
→ PROVENCE
INF C32 106 - -
- PUR C7 1 -
MANTUA VIRGIL (70-19 BC) b ANDES, nr MANTUA INF C1 67 PUR C1 52 -
THE
MARCHES
FERMO
Chignamente state siaté or …scate sciate
Be as you are
PUR C5 84
…poems in derision of these three peoples
MARCHE (Fermo) (or ROME, SPOLETO?)
Una fermana scopai da Cascioli, cita cita se’n
gìa’n grande aina.
I met a woman from Fermo near Cascioli; she
hurried away briskly in great haste.
PUR C18 100
V JACOPO DEL CASSERO ( -1298+) / CALLIOPE - PUR C5 46 -
PIEDMONT
ALESSANDRIA appalling vernacular
NOVARA OR
LUMELLO
PETER LOMBARD (1100-1160?)
Spent much time in Paris. PARADISO PICTURES: 39
TURIN appalling vernacular
SICILY Tragemi d’este focora se t’este a bolontate
Get me out of this fire, if you would be so kind
MANFRED (1231-1266)
Sicilian speaker. Blonde, handsome, with a
noble aspect and a split eyebrow.
CONSTANCE (1152-1198).
Empress, mother of Frederick II.
TRENTINO
ALTO ADIGE
TRENTO appalling vernacular
PAR C10 107
- PUR C3 103 -
PAR C3 1