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                      PAOLO AND FRANCESCA

                                         from the Italian of 

                                        Dante  Alighieri

                                (Inferno, Canto 5, lines 115-142)

                                              Version 1

                                          

 

VERSION 1
 

PAOLO AND FRANCESCA

 
Then spake I to them as I turned again,
     starting, ‘Francesca, thou in torment dost
     wring tears from me of pity and of pain.
... 
By Dante Alighieri (translated by Alan Marshfield)                    (back)
(For full translation see the Kindle ebook The Translations of Alan Marshfield)