Literary Genealogy, Virile Rhetoric, and John Gower's Confessio Amantis.(Critical Essay)

From: Philological Quarterly | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

In one of the most well-known passages of Inferno, Dante unexpectedly encounters the Florentine magistrate, rhetorician and poet, Brunetto Latini, amongst the sodomites in the innermost ring of the seventh circle of Hell. The poignancy of this episode, in which Dante greets his former teacher, suggests a degree of sympathy with the sinner on the part of the narrator which the modern reader might well not anticipate: 

   E io, quando il suo braccio a me distese, 
   ficcai gli occhi per lo cotto aspetto 
   si, che il viso abbruciato non difese 
   la conoscenza sua al mio ...

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