“CANTO” in italiano

The Commedia's last allusion to Virgil occurs as late as the final canto , when the poet marks the dissolution of his own powers in the face of God's reality.

This singular indebtedness is registered canto after canto , as both pilgrim and poet quite literally follow in Virgil's beloved footsteps.

Executed on large sheets of sheepskin parchment, each extraordinarily delicate ink line drawing illustrates one canto or section of Dante's poem.

This scene comes from the final canto of the 6,000-line poem, but although it is clearly the epic's climactic moment, its intra-familial violence cannot be allowed to remain its final statement.

In the last canto , it transpires that the louse had tumbled down from his own wig.