Outhne: Inferno Xx
OUTHNE: INFERNO XX
Introduction:
proem to a twentieth canto
first view of diviners: silent weeping
second view: faces turned backwards on twisted necks
address to reader (fourth in Inferno)
Dante’s tears and Virgil’s rebuke
The diviners:
1. Amphiaraus (Statius, Thebaid VII–VIII)
2. Tiresias (Ovid, Metamorphoses III)
3. Aruns (Lucan, Pharsalia I)
4. Manto (Virgil, Aeneid X)
Virgil’s digression on Manto and Mantua
second digression: modern-day Mantua
Dante’s responses
5. Eurypylus (Virgil, Aeneid II)
6. Michael Scot (astrologer of Frederick II)
7. Guido Bonati (astrologer of G. da Montefeltro)
8. Asdente (astrologer in Parma)
9. crowd of female soothsayers
Coda: