Because I want to go through Inferno before I head to Florence, I’m going to have to do three cantos per day. It might be more accessible to you readers if I don’t write 5,000 word essays on each ...

I erred in the last entry, saying that Dante and Virgil had crossed the Styx and were standing at a tower. In fact, they don’t cross until Canto 8, when the infernal boatman Phlegyas ferries them ...