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Detail of a miniature of Dante and Virgil looking into the tomb of Pope Anastasius.<\/p><\/div>\n

As Dante and Virgil make their way through the City of Dis (and see the tomb of yet another<\/em> pope), Dante has a moment very much like the one where you open the bathroom door at work and are assaulted by the fumes of a previous occupant\u2019s abomination. Of course, in this case, it\u2019s the smell of lower hell. Virgil gives Dante a few minutes to compose himself and assures him that he\u2019ll find a way to make the time pass while Virgil describes the rest of hell. In many ways, canto 11 is a lot like canto 2\u2014it\u2019s a way of briefly making everything clear to both Dante and to the reader. It\u2019s Virgil\u2019s way of saying, I know what you\u2019re thinking; did we go through six circles of hell, or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself. Let\u2019s briefly recap!<\/p>\n

And to be fair, Dante the poet couldn\u2019t have picked a better moment to pause and explain what\u2019s going on, because it\u2019s starting to get very confusing. <\/p>\n

Virgil explains that the next circles of hell will be reserved for the violent, with sinners ranked by the severity of their sins: violence against others, violence against oneself or one\u2019s property, and then the worst\u2014violence against God (things like sodomy and eating lobster rolls). The next circle is for the fraudulent\u2014those who committed fraud against the mistrusting (robbery),\u00a0and the following circle is\u00a0reserved for the worst kind of sinners\u2014those who committed fraud against people who trusted them. Virgil explains that human beings are meant to have a natural love for one another; to commit any kind of fraud is to betray this. But treacherous fraud against the trusting is even worse because it betrays an even greater bond: natural love supplemented by a bond of faith. It is so abhorrent that, as Virgil says, \u201cIn the tightest circle, the center of the universe and seat of Dis, all traitors are consumed eternally.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point, Dante basically says, I don\u2019t really get it, and asks why the other sinners they saw in the earlier parts of hell were not confined to the city of Dis as well. Virgil\u2019s response is appropriately frustrated: Dante, just when I thought you couldn\u2019t get any stupider you ask a stupid Florentine question like that. Use your head for a minute. Outside of Dis, Virgil explains, though the sins are damnable, they are not sins of malice. For instance, Francesca didn\u2019t sleep with Paolo because she was trying<\/em> to hurt her husband. The prodigal may have been horrible people, but their sins weren\u2019t committed with the intentions of causing harm to others. Then Virgil asks Dante if he\u2019s even read Aristotle, because if he had, he would understand that incontinence offends God less than malice. God, Dante, read a book.<\/p>\n

This canto is one of the shortest in the entire poem. In a strange way, we can see here a Dante we don\u2019t know very well\u2014Dante the comedian.\u00a0He follows up a canto like canto 10 with a short joke about how hell reeks, and a preemptive, indirect apology to the reader for the upcoming pedantic lecture, and later in the canto he allows himself to be berated and called an idiot by his mentor. It\u2019s not to say that canto 11 puts the comedy back in Divine Comedy<\/em>, but indeed in canto 11 a good-natured, sardonic facet of the great poet\u2019s character slips through for a second. Even Neil Simon couldn\u2019t write this stuff.<\/p>\n

To catch up on our Dante series, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alexander Aciman is the author of <\/em>Twitterature<\/a>. He has written for the <\/em>New York Times, <\/em>Tablet, the <\/em>Wall Street Journal, and <\/em>TIME. Follow him on Twitter at @acimania<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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