CANTO XXXII

by Dante Alighieri
" WHEREAT I TURNED AND SAW BENEATH MY FEET
AND STRETCHING OUT AHEAD, A LAKE SO FROZEN
IT SEEMED TO BE MADE OF GLASS. SO THICK A SHEET NEVER
YET HID THE DANUBE'S WINTER COURSE, NOR, FAR WAY
BENEATH THE FRIGID SKY, LOCKED THE DON UP IN ITS FROZEN
SOURCE: "
-A BIBLICAL CHARACTER

-KNOWN TO BE THE MAN WHO KILLED

HIS BROTHER ABEL OUT OF SPITE AND
JEALOUSY
" AND I-TO TELL YOU ALL AND SO BE THROUGH WAS CAMICION
DE' PAZII. I WAIT FOR CARLIN BESIDE WHOSE GUILT MY SINS
WILL SHINE LIKE VIRTUE "
-GUILTY OF KILLING HIS OWN RELATIVE AND
KINSMAN NAMED CARLIN DE PAZZI

-INTRODUCED TO DANTE THE OTHER SINNERS

IN THE CIRCLE
" A SQUAB MORE FIT FOR THE ASPIC THAN THESE TWO; NOT HIM
WHOSE BREAST AND SHADOW A SINGLE BLOW OF THE GREAT LANCE
OF KING ARTHUR PIERCED WITH LIGHT; NOR YET FOCACCIA; NOR THIS
ONE FASTENED SO INTO THE ICE THAT HIS HEAD IS ALL I SEE' AND
WHOM, IF YOU ARE TUSCAN, YOU KNOW WELL -HIS NAME ON THE
EARTH WAS SASSOL MASCHERONI "
GUILTY OF MURDERING HIS COUSIN

KILLED HIS NEPHEW TO GET ALL OF HIS

INHERITANCE.
TOGETHER. "WHO ARE YOU," I SAID, "WHO LIE SO TIGHTLY BREAST
TO BREAST?" THEY STRAINED THEIR NECKS , AND WHEN THEY HAD
RAISED THEIR HEADS AS IF TO REPLY, THE TEARS THEIR EYES HAD
MANAGED TO CONTAIN UO TO THAT TIME GUSHED OUT, AND THE
COLD FROZE THEMBETWEEN THE LIDS, SEALING THEM SHUT AGAIN
TIGHTER THAN ANY CLAMP GRIPS WOOD TO WOOD, AND MAD WITH
PAIN, THEY FELL TO BUTTING HEADS LIKE BILLY -GOATS IN A SUDDEN
SAVAGE MOOD.
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HOMICIDE AND MURDER CASES THAT WERE
CAUSED BY A PERSONS GREED FOR MONEY