"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? marsh haze mist wood

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? desire seen left wished

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

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? eye cushion tip stitch

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? shapes hues flames beings

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? size life mind shape

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

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? strength fire swords vigor

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