Plutus and the Rolling Weights — Inferno, Canto 7

Plutus and the Rolling Weights  Inferno 7

A guardian opens the canto with five words that no reader in seven hundred years has been able to construe, Virgil answers not the sense but the tone — quiet, cursed wolf, eat yourself with your own rage — and the creature collapses like a sail when the mast snaps; and beyond him lies the … Read more