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Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on July 20, 2007
Literary Imagination 2007 9(3):308-312; doi:10.1093/litimag/imm090
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M.J. Fitzgerald*

*M.J. Fitzgerald teaches English and creative writing at the University of Minnesota; please direct email to fitzg007@umn.edu

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In the Prologue to the Divine Comedy, Canto I of the Inferno, the thirty-four-year-old Dante wakes up just before dawn one spring day to find himself in a dark forest. He's been sleep walking and has no idea how he got to where he is and how to get out. He begins to walk toward the sun breaking into dawn behind a high mountain, but his progress is blocked by three increasingly threatening beasts. He is losing heart and about to turn back and return to the darkness of the wood when the shade of Virgil materializes before him.

Virgil tells him the only way out is to first go deep into the underground region ove udirai le disperate strida, and then he will be able to climb the mountain and vederai color che son contenti \ nel foco. He adds that he will be Dante's . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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