by Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
Translation © by Allen Mandelbaum (1926 - 2011)
Inferno
Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)
When I had journeyed half of our life's way [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Allen Mandelbaum (1926 - 2011), copyright © [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), "Canto I", written 1308-1321, appears in La divina commedia, no. 1
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Linda Alexandersson (b. 1984), "Inferno", 2007, copyright © 2016 [ women's chorus ], Gehrmans
Publisher: Gehrmans [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2026-03-04
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