Canto XV
Circle 7: Round 3
Sin: Violence Against Nature, Sodomy
Punishment: Running forever on hot sand through fire rain.
Retribution: The sinners must run through fire rain. Fire rain is unnatural, as is sodomy.
Dante and Virgil continue past the hot sandy plain where the violent against Art, Nature and God suffer. As they walk, they pass one of the groups of Sodomites who must run on the hot sand through the raining fire. One sinner, Ser Brunetto Latino, recognizes and stops Dante. Brunetto stops running to walk and talk with Dante for a moment. Brunetto prophesizes the future to Dante as they talk. He tells Dante of the suffering that he will face against the Florentines. Dante comes to terms with his future and accepts the fate that will come to him. Brunetto also tells him of the other souls who are doomed to the same punishment as he. He must then continue to run with the others because of Divine Compulsion.
What is Dante saying in this quote:
"Twice already in the eternal shade
I have heard the prophecy; but let Fortune turn
her wheel as she please, and the countryman his spade."? (Canto XV, lines 94-96)
Canto XVI
Circle 7: Round 3
Sin: Violence Against Nature, Sodomy
Punishment: Running forever on hot sand through fire rain.
Retribution: The sinners must run through fire rain. Fire rain is unnatural, as is sodomy.
Dante and Virgil continue through the Third Round of the Seventh Circle and can begin to hear the sound of the waterfall that runs over a cliff into the Eighth Circle. Three Florentines recognize Dante and approach him. Jacopo Rusticucci, Guido Guerra, and Tegghiaio Aldobrandi are the sinners and they ask Dante about Florence. The tells them of the present situation of Florence and its misfortunes. The Florentines then must leave and Dante and Virgil continue towards the Eighth Circle. They reach the top of the waterfall and Virgil takes Dante's belt and drops it over the edge of the cliff. They wait to see what comes up from below in the Eighth Circle.
Who is "them" in this quote and why does Dante wish to embrace them?
"But seeing I should be burned and cooked , my fear
overcame the first impulse of my heart
to leap down and embrace them then and there."
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5 comments:
Taylor Tercek
The "them" in the quote are Jacopo Rusticucci, Guido Guerra, and Tegghiaio Aldobrandi.
Drew Humphrey-
Dante wishes to embrace Jacopo Rusticucci, Guido Guerra, and Tegghiaio Aldobrandi because they are famous poets and he admires them.
Connor Jduson
1)Dante is saying that he is accepting his fate and the fate of his fellow countrymen.
Jessie Wilschek
Canto XVI
"They" are Jacopo Rusticucci, Guido Guerra, and Tegghiaio Aldobrandi.
Frank Kacer
1)the "them" are Jacopo Rusticucci, Guido Guerra, and Tegghiaio Aldobrandi. Dante wants to embrace them because they were famous poets.
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