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Francesca da Rimini — Inferno, Canto 5

· August 14, 2026
Francesca da Rimini Inferno 5

Out of a storm full of the anonymous dead, Dante picks two who are travelling together and calls them over — and what comes back is the most persuasive speech in Hell: a woman who never once says she chose anything, who assigns the blame in turn to Love, to a book, to the man … Read more

Tempest of the Lustful — Inferno, Canto 5

· August 14, 2026
Tempest of the Lustful Inferno 5

Past the judge, the second circle announces itself first as noise — wailing that arrives before anything is visible — and then as a wind that never stops, a black storm carrying the souls of the lustful in flocks the way winter carries starlings; and while Dante watches, Virgil points into the gale and names … Read more