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Et qual cervo ferito di saetta, col ferro avelenato dentr’al fianco, fugge […]
And like a deer wounded by an arrow, with the poisoned tip in its side, runs
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 13–16; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ.Le Lettere, 1994:
Corda non pinse mai da sé saetta che sì corresse via per l’aere snella, com’io vidi una nave piccioletta venir per l’acqua verso noi in quella
A cord never shot an arrow from itself that ran through the air so swift as I there saw a small ship come towards us through the water
Ma la Fortuna, che dei pazzi ha cura, del mar lo trasse nel lito di Setta, in una spiaggia, lungi da le mura quanto sarian duo tratti di saetta.
But Fortune—who looks after madmen—took him from the sea to the shore of the Setta, on a beach, distant from the walls the equivalent of two arrow shots.
1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 55–57; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ.Le Lettere, 1994:
Da tutte parti saettava il giorno lo sol, ch’avea con le saette conte di mezzo ’l ciel cacciato Capricorno
On all sides was darting forth the day the sun, who had, with its resplendent shafts chased the Capricorn away from the middle of the sky
