Phlegyas and the Swift Boat — Inferno, Canto 8
Lucy Bamboo · October 10, 2026
A canto that begins by going backwards — the narrator says «Io dico, seguitando» and rewinds behind the end of the previous canto to a moment when two small flames were being set on the tower’s summit and a third was answering from a distance the eye could barely hold — establishes before anything at … Read more