Lucy Bamboo · October 10, 2026
Farinata has not moved while Cavalcante rose and fell beside him, and now he picks up the quarrel exactly where it broke off: the art of returning from exile, he tells Dante, is one the pilgrim will soon learn the weight of; then, after a sigh and a defence of the day he saved Florence, … Read more
Lucy Bamboo · October 10, 2026
Halfway through Dante’s quarrel with Farinata, a second shade rises from the same open tomb, visible only to the chin, looks past the pilgrim for someone who is not there, and asks in tears where his son is; the son is Guido Cavalcanti, Dante’s closest friend in youth and a poet in his own right, … Read more
Lucy Bamboo · October 10, 2026
Inside the walls of Dis the travellers take a narrow path between the rampart and the open tombs, and Dante, who has been holding a question since the circle of the gluttons, gets his answer before he can ask it: a voice comes out of a burning sarcophagus, places him by his Florentine accent, and … Read more
