Outhne: Inferno Xxix
OUTHNE: INFERNO XXIX
Dante longs to remain in order to weep
Virgil’s rebuke: why do you wish to stay on here?
Virgil on the space and time left for the journey
Dante: had you understood my motive, you might have let me stay longer—I was looking for a relative
Virgil: I saw him there threatening you while you were occupied with Bertran de Born
Dante: what you say makes me pity him the more
first dim view of the bolgia
Dante covers his ears so as not to feel pity
similes: hospitals (both eye and nose)
a closer view reveals the falsifiers
simile: plague in Aegina
comparisons:
they sit leaning on one another like pans;
they scratch as stableboys curry horses;
their nails are like knives scaling fish
Virgil addresses a sinner: Are there Italians here?
Griffolino of Arezzo: We both are; who are you?
Virgil: I lead this living man through hell
they are thunderstruck at such a presence; Virgil’s advice to Dante; Dante’s promise of fame
Griffolino: I died at the hands of Albero of Siena, not for alchemy, but for failed magicianship
Dante: the French are not as vain as the Sienese
Capocchio (ironically): Sienese exceptions
Capocchio’s own sins in alchemy