Abandon all hope, you who enter here
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In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri passes through the Gate of Hell, on which is inscribed the famous phrase, "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" or "Abandon all hope, you who enter here".
Verbatim, the line translates as "Leave (lasciate) every (ogne) hope (speranza), ye (voi) that (ch') enter (intrate)."
Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho begins with the words “Abandon all hope ye who enter here”.
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English translations
There are many English translations of this famous line. Some examples include
- All hope abandon, ye who enter here - Henry Francis Cary (1805–1844)
- All hope abandon, ye who enter in! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1882)
- Leave every hope, ye who enter! - Charles Eliot Norton (1891)
- Leave all hope, ye that enter - Carlyle-Wicksteed (1932)
- Lay down all hope, you that go in by me. - Dorothy L. Sayers (1949)
- Abandon every hope, you who enter. - Charles S. Singleton (1970)
- Abandon all hope, ye who enter here - John Ciardi (1977)
- No room for hope, when you enter this place - C. H. Sisson (1980)
- Abandon every hope, who enter here. - Allen Mandelbaum (1982)
- Abandon all hope, you who enter here - Robert Pinsky (1993)
- Abandon every hope, all you who enter - Mark Musa (1995)
- Abandon every hope, you who enter. - Robert M. Durling (1996)
- All hope abandon, you who enter here. - James Finn Cotter (2000) [1]
- Abandon all hope upon entering here! - Marcus Saunders (2004)
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