Donald Davie
Charles Cuddon
Michael Bulkley
Tony Tanner
Edgar Bowers
Thom Gunn
ché ’n la mente m’è fitta, e or me accora,
la cara e buona imagine paterna
di voi quando nel mondo ad ora ad ora
m’insegnavate come l’uom s’etterna;
e quant’io l’abbia in grado mentr’io vivo
convien che nella mia lingua si scerna.
INFERNO XV
…for in my memory is fixed – now it pierces my heart – the dear, kind, paternal image I have of you, when in the world, hour by hour, you taught me how man makes himself eternal; and it is right and proper that, as long as I live, my gratitude for that is shown in my language.