More On Virgil's Life Outside Of Comedy: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 31 - 48
In this passage from INFERNO, Virgil offers us (and the pilgrim, Dante) more of a glimpse into his last trek to the bottom of hell. Here, he tells us that things have changed, that hell now lies in ruins, that the harrowing caused havoc across hell--and he descends into a little heresy along the way, quoting Empedocles, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for an in-depth exploration of this complicated passage. We don't always get the Virgil we think we should get. And that's part of the problem . . . no, part of the fun of Dante's COMEDY. Virgil is the most difficult…
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