PURGATORIO, Episode 27. Virgil, The Flattering, Witty Sage: PURGATORIO, Canto III, Lines 67 - 78
Virgil seems way out of his league. And we’re only at the bottom of Mount Purgatory. He (and Dante) seem to scare some of the penitent souls at the very bottom of the mountain. Virgil resorts of an excess of flattery that may miss the mark. And he ends his speech with a strange, almost incomprehensible aphorism. Dante is up to strange games in his masterwork, COMEDY.
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