Let My Home Be My Gallows歌词

Hans Zimmer - Let My Home Be My Gallows
Because of his avarice and his betrayal of the emperor's trust...
Pier della Vigna was disgraced,blinded and imprisoned.
Dante's pilgrim finds Pier della Vigna on the seventh level of the Inferno...
like Judas Iscariot, he died by hanging.
the Judas and Pier della Vigna are linked in Dante...
by the avarice he saw in them.
In fact, avarice and hanging are linked in the medieval mind.
This is the earliest known depiction of the Crucifixion...
carved on an ivory box in Gaul about A.D.400.
It includes the death by hanging of Judas...
his face upturned to the branch that suspends him.
Here he is again on the doors of the Benevento Cathedral hanging...
this time with his bowels falling out.
On this plate from the 15th-century edition of the Inferno...
Pier della Vigna's body hangs from a bleeding tree.
I will not belabor the obvious parallel with Judas Iscariot...
but Dante Alighieri needed no drawn illustration.
It was his genius to make Pier della Vigna, now in hell...
speak in strained hisses and coughing sibilants...
as though he is hanging still.
Come L'altre verrem per nostre spoglie,
ma non però ch'alcuna sen rivesta,
ché non è giusto aver ciò ch'om si toglie.
Qui le stracineremo, e per la mesta
Selva saranno i nostri corpi appesi,
ciascuno al prun de L'ombra sua molesta.
Avarice, hanging, self-destruction.
Io fei gibetto a me de le mie case
I make my own home, be my gallows.
以上三小节见但丁《神曲·地狱篇》第八圈第二环，《自杀者的树林》，第100至第108行。译文参照C.H.Sisson的英译本(伦敦，山神版1980年版《神曲》)