Virgil Humiliated, Virgil Adored: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 127 - 148
We come to the end of Canto XXIII and the sixth of the evil pouches, the malebolge, that make up the subsets of fraud in the eighth circle of INFERNO. Virgil has already seen something that has left him gawking, maybe even a representation of his own fate.But Virgil's humiliations aren't over. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for the final moments among the hypocrites in hell. There's more to come as the old poet realizes that he's been tricked, that he's been lied to, and that his overconfidence almost got the pilgrim Dante into real trouble.How can Dante (the poet AND the pilgrim) redeem his…
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