Outhne: Inferno Xxvi

ironic apostrophe of Florence

narrative rejoined: climbing out of the seventh bolgia

Dante’s reaction to the denizens of the next bolgia

simile (1): peasant and fireflies

simile (2): Elisha/Elijah’s chariot: Dante/flames

narrative: Dante’s intense reaction

Virgil: the relation between flame and sinner

Dante: but what about that double flame?

Virgil: the causes of the damnation of these two

Dante’s eagerness to speak with them

Virgil’s approval, but only he will speak

Virgil addresses Ulysses and Diomedes

the greater flame prepares to speak:

leaving Circe but not going home

setting forth and the places left behind

Ulysses’ oration to his men and their reaction

the beginning of the last voyage

the destination, after five months: the mountain

storm and death