Poetic Rivalry And Poetic Guilt: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 52 - 72
In this passage from INFERNO, our poet (and our pilgrim) comes face to face with the suffering he caused. It takes a brave writer to face his fears head on.A shade rises up next to Farinata. This one's a Guelph, part of the faction that is Farinata's great enemy. This one's also Farinata's in-law, the man who married his son to Farinata's daughter. And this one is the father of a man our poet Dante sent into exile . . . and a man who died in exile.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we explore some of the most complicated bits of INFERNO that we've yet discovered, all about political and poetic…
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