The Curious Case Of Ciacco: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 34 - 57
In the third circle of hell, our pilgrim finds an emblematic glutton, Ciacco. This strange soul offers us a few problems. He mixes gluttony with another sin, thereby complicating the structure of the rings of hell in Dante's poem (and maybe of theology itself).Ciacco is the first damned soul to recognize our pilgrim by the dialect he speaks.We've stepped down into the muck of gluttony--and mystery, too. Ciacco remains a mysterious figure, obscured in the mists of time.Let's talk about the social unrest that gluttony causes. And let's talk for a minute about the strange nature of Dante's art…
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