All 12 Uses of
vengeance
in
Dante's Inferno
- The fall of man had made him a just object of the vengeance of God; but the elect were to be redeemed, and for their redemption the history of the world from the beginning was directed.†
Canto T.O. *
- Then he turned to that swollen lip and said, "Be silent, accursed wolf! inwardly consume thyself with thine own rage: not without cause is this going to the abyss; it is willed on high, there where Michael did vengeance on the proud adultery.†
Canto 7-9
- [1] If thou considerest well this doctrine, and bringest to mind who are those that up above, outside,[2] suffer punishment, thou wilt see clearly why from these felons they are divided, and why less wroth the divine vengeance hammers them.†
Canto 10-12
- Then he touched me, and said, "That is Nessus, who died for the beautiful Dejanira, and he himself wrought vengeance for himself; and that one in the middle, who is gazing on his breast, is the great Chiron who nurtured Achilles.†
Canto 10-12
- O vengeance of God, how much thou oughtest to be feared by every one who readeth that which was manifest unto mine eyes!†
Canto 13-15
- Though Jove weary his smith, from whom in wrath he took the sharp thunderbolt wherewith on my last day I was smitten, or though he weary the others, turn by turn, in Mongibello at the black forge, crying, 'Good Vulcan, help, help!' even as he did at the fight of Phlegra, and should hurl on me with all his might, thereby he should not have glad vengeance."†
Canto 13-15
- There he left her pregnant, and alone; such sin condemns him to such torment; and also for Medea is vengeance done.†
Canto 16-18
- "If you wish to see or to hear Tuscans or Lombards," thereon began again the frightened one, "I will make them come; but let the Malebranche stand a little withdrawn, so that they may not be afraid of their vengeance, and I, sitting in this very place, for one that I am, will make seven of them come, when I shall whistle as is our wont to do whenever one of us comes out."†
Canto 22-24
- The comparison is not very close except in the matter of anticipated vengeance.†
Canto 22-24
- Oh power of God! how just thou art that showerest down such blows for vengeance!†
Canto 22-24
- [3] One Francesco Guerelo de' Cavalcanti, who was slain by men of the little Florentine town of Gaville, and for whose death cruel vengeance was taken.†
Canto 25-27
- If thou comest not to increase the vengeance of Mont' Aperti, why dost thou molest me?"†
Canto 31-34
Definition:
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(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)