{"id":1183,"date":"2013-12-16T19:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/?page_id=1183"},"modified":"2021-11-30T16:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:24:50","slug":"the-library-inscriptions-pero-che","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/about\/inscriptions\/the-library-inscriptions-pero-che\/","title":{"rendered":"The Library Inscriptions &#8211; Pero Che&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High on the west wall of the outer lobby is a panel with the words<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">PERO CHE TU TRASCORRI<br \/>\nPER LE TENEBRE TROPPO<br \/>\nDA LA LUNGI AVVIEN CHE POI<br \/>\nNEL MAGINARE ABBORRI<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">[ Because You Try to Penetrate ]<br \/>\n[ the Shadows From Much Too ]<br \/>\n[ Far Away, You Confuse the Truth ]<br \/>\n[ With Your Imagination ]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1184\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/peroche.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1184\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/peroche-300x92.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/peroche-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/peroche-80x25.jpg 80w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/peroche.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture of inscription PERO CHE&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The text is from Dante Alighieri\u2019s La Divina Commedia \u2014 Inferno, Canto XXXI, lines 22-24. The translation is by Mark Musa (Bloomington, Ind., 1971, page 255).<\/p>\n<p>The panel, measuring 8 1\/2 feet by 3 feet, is dark gray Buckingham slate from a quarry in Arvonia, Virginia. The letters are classic Roman capitals.<\/p>\n<p>This panel and the two adjacent panels were installed in late July, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a title=\"Inscriptions\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/inscriptions\/\">Back to Inscriptions main page<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High on the west wall of the outer lobby is a panel with the words PERO CHE TU TRASCORRI PER LE TENEBRE TROPPO DA LA LUNGI AVVIEN CHE POI NEL MAGINARE ABBORRI [ Because You Try to Penetrate ] [ the Shadows From Much Too ] [ Far Away, You Confuse the Truth ] [ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"parent":1094,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1183","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9786,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1183\/revisions\/9786"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}