La Selva Oscura

It seems the dark wood where Dante in his "Divine Comedy" starts his travel in the lands of beyound. La "selva oscura", the dark wood represents the sin, It is collocated outside the boundaries of Jerusalem, and it is near the entry of the hell.


"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita.

Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura!"


" Midway in the journey of our life
I came to myself in a dark wood,
for the straight way was lost.

Ah, how hard it is to tell
the nature of that wood, savage, dense and harsh --
the very thought of it renews my fear!"


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