Di 7: Inferno Episodio 2

Like two doves returning to their nest, the pair descended from the gale. They were and Paolo Malatesta . Francesca spoke, her voice weeping even as she found words. She told of a book—the story of Lancelot—that they had read together one afternoon.

The air in the Second Circle of the Inferno didn’t just move; it shrieked. If the First Circle had been a sigh of eternal longing, the Second was a physical assault—a relentless, buffeting gale known as the . Inferno Episodio 2 di 7

This was , the dread judge of the underworld. He didn't look like a king; he looked like a nightmare. With a tail that coiled around his massive torso like a whip of scales, he snarled at the approaching poets. Like two doves returning to their nest, the

"Keep your head down," Dante shouted over the roar, though the words were instantly snatched from his lips. Virgil, composed even in the face of the tempest, merely pointed toward a massive, jagged throne of rock where a figure loomed, colossal and grotesque. She told of a book—the story of Lancelot—that

She described how they were murdered by her husband—Paolo’s brother—before they could repent. As she spoke, Paolo did nothing but sob, his grief a silent echo to her tale.

"A Galeotto was the book and he who wrote it," she whispered. "That day, we read no further."

"Poet," Dante pleaded, "I would gladly speak to those two who go together and seem so light upon the wind." Virgil nodded. "Call them by the love that leads them."