The Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

autograph version.

how does allegory work

The four senses of the Bible are generally put forth, and especially in the wake of Thomas Aquinas (Summa theologiae I.i.10), as follows: (1) historical/literal, (2) allegorical, (3) moral or tropological, (4) anagogical.

all these made a tumult, always whirling in that black and timeless air,

facevano un tumulto, il qual s’aggira sempre in quell’ aura sanza tempo tinta,