Note 609 — IV 1580-1706

The real title of the first (1623) edition is Dos Novissimos de Dom Francisco Rolim de Moura. Adam is conducted by his son Abel through Hell and comforted by a vision of Paradise. As he is the first man and only Abel has died, he must forgo Dante’s pleasure in meeting his personal enemies there, but there is something perhaps even more awful in the thought of the emptiness of these infinitos logares (iii. 48). Virgil’s Facilis descensus, &c., is translated in two lines of great badness: Onde descer he cousa tão factivel Quanto tornar atraz tem de impossivel (iii. 36).