The Inferno (The Divine Comedy series Book 1) by Dante

Author:Dante
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780345803108
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-07-11T04:00:00+00:00

94. Charon, introduced first (vv. 82–83) only by his characteristics (in a typical Dantean gesture, making us wonder who this imposing figure might be), is now named, and will be twice more (vv. 109, 128). This highly insistent naming should make it plain that Dante is serious about proposing the notion that the guardian of hell is derived from the Sixth Book of Virgil’s poem. It is fascinating, however, to watch the early commentators, so used to reading any fiction as though it were “allegorical,” “dehistoricizing” Charon. Among the early commentators Charon is variously understood as “fleshly desire,” “disordered love,” “ancient sinfulness,” “vice,” “time,” etc. It is surely better to understand him first and foremost as himself. [return to English / Italian]

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