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Monsters from the Divine Comedy  \nLorenzo Montemagno Ciseri  \nORCID: 0000-0001-6267-1043  \nIntroduction 1  \nI think, from all I can learn, that heaven has the better climate, but hell has the better company.  \nBenjamin Wade2 (MacArthur, 1885, p. 500)  \nThe most vivid memory of Dante’s Comedy I’ve retained for years, from the high school desks to the“toilsome papers” of university, isthat ofan immense masterpiece, like it had been always presented to me – although just in theory, just on paper: such masterpiece remained totally unexpressed forme in the practice of daily study. It almost looked like it was a dismembered body whose pieces were made up of celebrated quotes («ye were not made to live like unto brutes»; Inferno, XXVI, 119), repeated suggestions («and [I] fell, even as a dead body falls»; Inferno, V, 142), and famous names (Virgil, Beatrice, Paolo and Francesca), that I was patiently attempting to reassemble, like a paleontolo-  \n1 Lorenzo Montemagno Ciseri wrote two books on Dante, in which he analyzes the monstruous creatures dwelling in the Dantean otherworlds: Mostri: la storia e le storie (Rome: Carocci editore, 2018) and Cerbero e gli altri. I mostri nella Divina Commedia (Rome: Carocci editore, 2021). The translated fragments come from the latter: the Introduction to the book (9-15) and a conspicuous part (from the Three Beasts to Medusa) of the third chapter on Hell, I mostri della Commedia: Inferno. The entirety of the chapter is made up of the following parts: The Three Beasts, Charon, Minos, Cerberus, the Erinyes (Furies) and Medusa, the Minotaur, the Harpies, Gerion, the Soothsayers, the Devils of Malebranche, the Serpents and Cacus, the Giants, Lucifer (47-61). Ciseri’s literary production on Dante has never been previously translated in Polish. Additional cultural references in the footnotes belong to the translator. The quotes from the Comedy are excerpts from Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy –Inferno, trans. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  \n2 The author is quoting A. MacArthur, Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, Boston: Press of Geo, 1885, 500.  \ntranslations | Lorenzo Montemagno Ciseri, Cerberus and the others 55  \ngist would do with the fossilized bones of an ancient, long-extinct creature. A great distance kept me apart from Dante’s work, and I blamed it on the listless, misguided school approach I was subjected to; the gap could only barely be filled with the memories of hidden laughter underlining the grossestand most licentious passages by the Poet. For instance, when Barbariccia, commanding his fellow devils to get moving, «made a trumpet of his rump» (Inferno, XXI, 139); or when Dante mentions Thais’ «filthy nails» just before calling her a «harlot» (Inferno, XVIII, 131-133). There was no other way for a teenager – although perhaps good-willed – to lighten up those seemingly never-ending hours, crammed with boring explanations and tiresome exegesis of the text. A lot has changed (or rather – everything) since I discovered teratology some years later, while studying for my PhD in History of Science. Teratology is a fascinating branch of biology that deals with monstrosity and physical abnormalities in living beings. Far from being terrified, perhaps trained by my youthful readings of Edgar Allan Poe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Stephen King and Clive Barker, my world began to populate with monsters. Wherever I turned, and wherever I laid eyes for research purposes, something or someone would speak to me about them. The same thing was happening to me that Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park (2000, p. 9) mention in the preface to Wonders ofthe world. Monsters, prodigies, and strange facts from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment3, when they admit that others would read authors and their works of literature for the sake of poetry, philosophy, or natural history, seeking compelling arguments between the pages – whereas t","cbCaifywL90JERCE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifywL90JERCE","pdf",633626,"English","# Introduction\n## Monsters and early reading memories\n## From schooling to teratology\n## Monsters as a lens for Dante","[{\"question\":\"What memory of Dante’s Comedy does the author emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"The author highlights a long-lasting recollection of an immense, masterful work that remained “unexpressed” during everyday study, preserved through quotations, suggestions, and famous names.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author link their interest in monsters to teratology?\",\"answer\":\"Later study of teratology leads the author to view monstrosity and physical abnormalities scientifically, and their world increasingly fills with monsters for research and imagination.\"},{\"question\":\"What argument does the author make about teaching Dante?\",\"answer\":\"The author suggests that teachers should use monsters as an engaging magnifying glass to transmit knowledge, enabling Dante’s text—especially the monster-filled cantos—to reveal charisma to readers.\"}]","Cerberus and the others - Monsters from the Divine Comedy | PDF",1791309331,31]