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The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory

Note 1 — CANTO XXV.

Charles Eliot Norton translation

The word in the original is tortura. Benvenuto’s comment is, “nunc incipiebant torquere et flectere viam, ideo talem deflectionem appellat torturam.” Buti, on the contrary, says, “tortura cioe tormento.”

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