Salvation of Italy
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Di quella umile Italia fia salute per cui morì la vergine Cammilla, Eurialo e Turno e Niso di ferute.
He will be the salvation of that humble Italy for which the maiden Camilla died, and Euryalus and Turnus and Nisus of their wounds.
He will be the salvation of humble Italy, for which Camilla, Euryalus, Turnus and Nisus died of wounds.
The prophecy turns national. The hound will save <i>umile Italia</i> — humbled Italy — and Dante names its cost from the <i>Aeneid</i>: Camilla the warrior maiden, the friends Nisus and Euryalus, the doomed king Turnus, all killed in the war to found Rome.
By invoking Virgil's own dead, Dante binds the coming savior to the epic of Roman origins. The hound will complete what those wounds began — the making of Italy — and he does it in the language of the poet standing beside him.
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