Outhne: Inferno Vi

Dante recovers from his syncope to find a new place

the third Circle: cold downpour on stinking ground

Cerberus presides, barking; he flays the sinners

Cerberus’s opposition and Virgil’s “sop” for him

simile: dog ravenously gulping food

Dante and Virgil pass over the prone shades

Florence: Ciacco recognizes Dante and presents self

Dante does not recognize him, transfigured by pain

Ciacco identifies himself and his sin: gluttony

Dante asks his views on the likely future of the city

Ciacco: first the Whites, then the Blacks, will win

the just are few, the sinners many

Dante wants to know the afterlife of five townsmen

Ciacco: all are in hell, as Dante will perhaps see

Ciacco would like to be remembered to those above

he returns to his hebetude

Virgil: he will wake no more until the last trumpet

Virgil on the increase of eternal pain for the damned

they talk until they are ready to descend: Plutus