"La Divina Commedia" by Dante Alighieri

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1. "In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy...". What's the missing word? wood mist marsh haze

2. "How first I enter'd it I scarce can say. Such sleepy dullness in that instant weigh'd my senses down, when the true path I...". What's the missing word? left wished seen desire

3. Who promised to show Dante "The punishment of hell and purgatory and lead him to Beatrice, who will conduct him into paradise"? Mantuans Virgil Farinata Cerberus

4. "Here sighs, with lamentations and loud moans. Resounded through the air pierced by no star. That e'en I wept at entering. Various tongues, horrible languages, outcries of...". What's the missing word? shame woe guilt rage

5. "They each one eyed us, as at eventide. One eyes another under a new moon; and towards us sharpen'd their sight, as keen as an old tailor at his needle's...". What's the missing word? stitch tip eye cushion

6. "The hideous monster intertwined his own. Then, as the both had been of burning wax, each melted into other, mingling..." What's the missing word? beings shapes hues flames

7. "We from the bridge's head descended, where to the eighth mound it joins; and then the chasm opening to view. I saw a crowd within of serpents terrible, so strange of...". What's the missing word? shape mind size life

8. "Oh! how severe God's judgment, that deals out such blows in stormy...". What's the missing word? nights vengeance wrath ire

9. "Lo!" he exclaim'd, "lo! Dis; and lo! the place. Where thou hast need to arm thy heart with...". What's the missing word? swords vigor fire strength

10. "We climb'd, he first, I following his steps. Till on our view the beautiful lights of heaven, dawn'd through a circular opening in the cave: Thence issuing we again beheld the...". What's the missing word? night gate moon stars