More on the Inferno, and on Ulysses and Ugolina; Dante's attitude towards the damned compared with God's and with Virgil's. The naming of Ugolino's sons in his song. The relation of the seven increasing sins in Inferno and their reverse-order decrease in Purgatorio. The likewise increasing uncertainty of Virgil in Purgatorio. Ulysses on the short vigil of the senses. Merwin and Heaney as translators of Dante into a genuinely poetic vernacular.
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